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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
CHAPTER 1
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.


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had brought forth her firstborn
had brought forth her firstborn
Son. And he called His name JESUS.
Son. And he called His name JESUS.
CHAPTER 2
Now when Jesus was born in
Bethlehem of Judea in the days of
Herod the king, behold, wise men
from the east came to Jerusalem,
saying, “Where is He who has
been born King of the Jews? As we
have seen His star in the east and
have come to worship Him.”
When Herod the king had heard
these things, he was troubled, and
all Jerusalem with him.
And when he had gathered all
the chief priests and scribes of the
people together, he demanded of
them where Christ would be born.
And they said to him, “In
Bethlehem of Judea, because,
thus it is written by the prophet:
‘And you Bethlehem, in the land
of Judah, are not the least among
the rulers of Judah; because out
of you will come a Ruler that will
rule My people Israel.’”
Then Herod, when he had privately
called the wise men, diligently
inquired of them what
time the star appeared.
And he sent them to Bethlehem
and said, “Go and search diligently
for the young Child, and
when you have found Him, bring
back word to me, that I may come
and worship Him also.”
After they heard the king, they
departed; and behold, the star
which they had seen in the east,
went before them, until it came
and stood over where the young
Child was.
When they saw the star, they
rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.
And when they had come into
the house, they saw the young
Child with Mary His mother,
and fell down, and worshiped
Him. And when they had opened
their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense,
and myrrh.
And being warned by God in a
dream that they should not return
to Herod, they departed into their
own country another way.
Now when they had departed,
behold, the angel of the Lord
appeared to Joseph in a dream,
saying, “Arise, take the young
Child and His mother, flee into
Egypt, and wait there until I bring
you word; because Herod will seek
the young Child to destroy Him.”
When he arose, he took the
young Child and His mother by
night and departed into Egypt,
and was there until the death
of Herod, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the Lord
through the prophet, saying, “Out
of Egypt I have called My Son.”
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked because of the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and killed all the children who were in Bethlehem and in all of its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying:  “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are no more.”
But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, “Arise, and take the young Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel, because those who sought the young Child’s life are dead.”
Then he arose, and took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.
But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in the position of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. However being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of Galilee.
And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, “He will be called a Nazarene.”
CHAPTER 3
In those days John the Baptist
came preaching in the wilderness
of Judea,
and saying, “Repent, because the
kingdom of heaven is at hand!”
Because, this is he who was
spoken of through the prophet
Isaiah, saying: “The voice of
one shouting in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the LORD;
make His paths straight.’”
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Now John himself was clothed
in camel’s hair, with a leather belt
around his waist; and his food
was locusts and wild honey.
Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and
all the region around the Jordan
went out to him
and were baptized by him in the
Jordan, confessing their sins.
But when he saw many of the
Pharisees and Sadducees coming
to his baptism, he said to them,
“O generation of vipers! Who has
warned you to escape from the
wrath to come?
Therefore bear fruits worthy of
repentance,
and do not think to say within
yourselves, ‘we have Abraham as
our father.’ Because, I say to you
that God is able to raise up children
to Abraham from these stones.
And even now the axe is laid to
the root of the trees. Therefore
every tree which does not produce
good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire.
I indeed baptize you with water
for repentance, but He who is
coming after me is mightier than
me, whose sandals I am not worthy
to carry. He will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
His winnowing fan is in His hand,
and He will thoroughly clean His
threshing floor, and gather His
wheat into the storehouse; but
He will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire.”
Then Jesus came from Galilee
to John at the Jordan to be baptized
by him.
But John prevented Him, saying,
“I need to be baptized by You,
and are You coming to me?”
But Jesus answered and said
to him, “Permit it to be so now,
because it is fitting for us to fulfill
all righteousness.” Then he
allowed Him.
And when He was baptized,
Jesus came up immediately from
the water; and behold, the heavens
were opened to Him, and he saw
the Spirit of God descending like a
dove, and lighting upon Him.
And behold a voice from heaven,
saying, “This is My beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased.”
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Then Jesus was led up by the
Spirit into the wilderness to be
tempted by the devil.
And when He had fasted forty
days and forty nights, afterward
He was hungry.
Now when the tempter came
to Him, he said, “If You are the
Son of God, command that these
stones become bread.”
But He replied and said, “It is
written, ‘Man will not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.’”
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Then the devil took Him up into
the holy city, and set Him on a
pinnacle of the temple,
and said to Him, “If You are the
Son of God, throw Yourself down.
Because it is written: ‘He will give
His angels orders concerning
You,’ and, ‘in their hands they will
hold You up, lest at any time You
strike Your foot against a stone.’”
Jesus said to him, “It is written
again, ‘You shall not tempt the
LORD your God.’”
Again, the devil took Him up
onto a very high mountain, and
showed Him all the kingdoms of
the world and their glory.
And he said to Him, “I will give
You all these things, if You will
fall down and worship me.”
Then Jesus said to Him, “Leave
Satan! Because it is written, ‘You
shall worship the LORD your God,
and Him only shall you serve.’”
Then the devil left Him, and
behold, angels came and ministered
to Him.
Now when Jesus had heard
that John had been thrown into
prison, He departed to Galilee.
And leaving Nazareth, He came
and dwelt in Capernaum, which is
by the sea coast, in the regions of
Zebulun and Naphtali,
that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through Isaiah the
prophet, saying:
“The land of Zebulun and the
land of Naphtali, by the way of the
sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of
the Gentiles:
The people who sat in darkness
have seen a great Light, and
upon those who sat in the region
and shadow of death Light has
dawned.”
From that time Jesus began
to preach, and to say, “Repent,
because the kingdom of heaven is
at hand.”
And Jesus, walking by the sea of
Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon
called Peter, and Andrew his
brother, casting a net into the sea;
because they were fishermen.
And He said to them, “Follow Me,
and I will make you fishers of men.”
And they immediately left their
nets, and followed Him.
And going on from there, He
saw two more brethren, James
the son of Zebedee, and John his
brother, in a boat with Zebedee
their father, mending their nets,
and He called them.
And immediately they left the
boat and their father, and followed
Him.
Then Jesus went about all
Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel
of the kingdom, and healing all
types of sickness and every kind
of disease among the people.
And His fame went throughout
all Syria; and they brought to
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Him every sick person who was
afflicted with various diseases
and torments, and those who
were possessed with demons,
those who were insane, and paralytics;
and He healed them.
And large crowds of people
followed Him from Galilee,
and from Decapolis, Jerusalem,
Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
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And seeing the crowds, He
went up on a mountain, and
when He was seated His disciples
came to Him.
Then He opened His mouth and
taught them, saying:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
because theirs is the kingdom
of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
because they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, because
they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger
and thirst for righteousness,
because they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, because
they will obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
because they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
because they will be called the
children of God.
Blessed are those who are
persecuted for righteousness’
sake, because theirs is the kingdom
of heaven.
“Blessed are you when men
revile you, persecute you, and
say all kinds of evil against you
falsely, for My sake.
Rejoice, and be exceedingly
glad, because great is your reward
in heaven, because they also persecuted
the prophets who were
before you.
“You are the salt of the earth; but
if the salt has lost its flavor, how
shall it be salted? It is then good for
nothing but to be thrown out and
to be trampled underfoot by men.
“You are the light of the world.
A city that is set on a hill cannot
be hidden.
Nor do men light a lamp and
put it under a basket, but on a
lampstand, and it gives light to
all who are in the house.
Let your light shine like this
before men, that they may see
your good works and glorify your
Father who is in heaven.
“Do not think that I came to
destroy the law or the prophets.
I did not come to destroy but to
fulfill.
Because, truly, I say to you,
until heaven and earth pass away,
one jot or one tittle will by no
means pass from the law, until all
is fulfilled.
Whoever therefore breaks one
of these least commandments,
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but teaches men so, he will be
called the least in the kingdom
of heaven; but whoever does and
teaches them, they will be called
great in the kingdom of heaven.
Because, I say to you, that unless
your righteousness exceeds the
righteousness of the scribes and
Pharisees, you will by no means
enter into the kingdom of heaven.
“You have heard that it was
said by those of old times, ‘You
shall not murder, and whoever
murders will be in danger of the
judgment.’
But I say to you that whoever
is angry with his brother without
a cause will be in danger of the
judgment. And whoever shall say
to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in
danger of the council. But whoever
says, ‘You fool!’ will be in
danger of hell fire.
Therefore if you bring your gift
to the altar, and there remember
that your brother has something
against you,
leave your gift there before the
altar, and go your way. First be
reconciled to your brother, and
then come and offer your gift.
Agree with your adversary
quickly, while you are on the
way with him, lest at any time
your adversary deliver you to the
judge, and the judge deliver you
to the officer, and you be thrown
into prison.
Truly, I say to you, you will by
no means come out of there until
you have paid the last penny.
“You have heard that it was
said by those of old times, ‘You
shall not commit adultery.’
But I say to you that whoever
looks on a woman to lust after her
has committed adultery with her
already in his heart.
And if your right eye offends
you, pluck it out, and cast it from
you; because, it is more profitable
for you that one of your members
should perish, and not that your
entire body to be thrown into hell.
And if your right hand offends
you, cut it off and cast it from you;
because, it is more profitable for
you that one of your members
should perish, and not that your
entire body be cast into hell.
“It has been said, ‘whoever puts
away his wife, let him give her a
certificate of divorce.’
But I say to you, that whoever
puts away his wife for any reason
except sexual immorality, causes
her to commit adultery; and whoever
marries a woman who is
divorced commits adultery.
“Again, you have heard that
it has been said to those of old
times, ‘You shall not swear falsely,
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but shall perform your oaths to
the Lord.’
But I say to you, do not swear at
all: neither by heaven, because it
is God’s throne;
nor by the earth, because it is
His footstool; nor by Jerusalem,
because it is the city of the
great King.
Neither shall you swear by your
head, because you cannot make
one hair white or black.
But let your communication
be, ‘yes,’ ‘yes,’ or ‘no,’ ‘no.’ Because
whatever goes beyond these is
from evil.
“You have heard that it has
been said, ‘An eye for an eye, and
a tooth for a tooth.’
But I tell you that you should
not resist a wicked person. But
whoever slaps you on your right
cheek, turn the other to him also.
And if anyone wants to sue you
at the law and take away your
coat, let him have your cloak also.
And whoever compels you to go
one mile, go two with him.
Give to him who asks you, and
from him who wants to borrow
from you do not turn away.
“You have heard that it has
been said, ‘You shall love your
neighbor and hate your enemy.’
But I say to you, Love your enemies,
bless those who curse you,
do good to those who hate you,
and pray for those who spitefully
use you and persecute you,
that you may be the children
of your Father who is in heaven;
because, He makes His sun to
rise on the evil and on the good,
and sends rain on the just and on
the unjust.
Because, if you love those who
love you, what reward do you
gain? Do not even the tax collectors
do the same?
And if you only greet your
brethren, what do you do more
than others? Do not even tax collectors
do so?
Therefore be perfect, just as
your Father in heaven is perfect.
CHAPTER
“Beware that you do not do your
charitable deeds in front of men,
to be seen by them. Otherwise
you have no reward from your
Father who is in heaven.
Therefore, when you do your
charitable deeds, do not sound a
trumpet before you, as the hypocrites
do in the synagogues and
in the streets, that they may have
glory from men. Truly, I say to
you, they have their reward.
But when you do charitable deeds,
do not let your left hand know
what your right hand is doing,
that your charitable deeds may
be in secret; and your Father who
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sees in secret will Himself reward
you openly.
“And when you pray, you shall
not be like the hypocrites are.
Because, they love to pray standing
in the synagogues and in the
corners of the streets, that they
may be seen by men. Truly, I say
to you, they have their reward.
But you, when you pray, go
into your room, and when you
have shut your door, pray to your
Father who is in secret; and your
Father who sees in secret will
reward you openly.
But when you pray, do not use
vain repetitions, as the heathen
do. Because, they think that they
will be heard because of their
many words.
“Therefore do not be like them.
Because, your Father knows the
things you have need of before
you ask Him.
In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come. Your will
be done, on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we
forgive our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Because, Yours is the kingdom
and the power and the glory forever.
Amen.
“Because, if you forgive men
their trespasses, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive men
their trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses.
“Moreover, when you fast, do not
be like the hypocrites, with a sad
countenance. Because, they disfigure
their faces, that they may
appear to men to be fasting. Truly, I
say to you, they have their reward.
But you, when you fast, anoint
your head, and wash your face,
so that you do not appear to
men to be fasting, but to your
Father who is in that secret place;
and your Father who sees in
secret, will reward you openly.
“Do not store up for yourselves
treasures on earth, where moth
and rust corrupts, and where
thieves break in and steal;
but store up for yourselves treasures
in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust corrupts, and where
thieves do not break in nor steal.
Because, where your treasure
is, there will your heart be also.
“The light of the body is the
eye. Therefore if your eye is single,
your entire body will be full
of light.
But if your eye is corrupt, your
entire body will be filled with
darkness. Therefore if the light
that is in you is darkness, how
great is that darkness!
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“No one can serve two masters;
because, either he will hate
the one and love the other, or else
he will be loyal to the one and
despise the other. You cannot
serve God and mammon.
“Therefore I say to you, do not
be anxious about your life, what
you shall eat or what you shall
drink; nor about your body, what
you shall put on. Is not this life
more than food and the body
more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air,
because, they neither sow nor
reap nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not of much more value
than them?
Which of you by being anxious
can add one cubit to his stature?
“So why do you worry about
clothing? Consider the lilies of
the field, how they grow: they
neither toil nor spin;
and yet I say to you that even
Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.
Now if God clothes the grass of the
field like that, which today exists,
and tomorrow is thrown into the
oven, will He not much more clothe
you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore do not worry, saying,
‘What shall we eat?’ or, ‘What shall
we drink?’ or, ‘What shall we wear?’
(Because, the Gentiles seek
after all these things.) Because
your heavenly Father knows that
you have need of all these things.
But you, seek first the kingdom of
God and His righteousness, and all
these things will be added to you.
Therefore do not worry about
tomorrow, because tomorrow
will be concerned for the issues of
itself. Sufficient for the day is its
own evil.
CHAPTER
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
Because, with the judgment you
judge, you will be judged; and
with the measure you use, it will
be measured back to you.
And why do you look at the
speck that is in your brother’s
eye, but do not consider the plank
that is in your own eye?
Or how can you say to your
brother, ‘Let me remove the speck
from your eye’; and behold, a
plank is in your own eye?
You hypocrite! First remove
the plank from your own eye,
and then you will see clearly
to remove the speck from your
brother’s eye.
“Do not give that which is holy
to the dogs; nor cast your pearls
before swine, lest they trample
them under their feet, and turn
again and attack you.
“Ask, and it will be given to you;
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seek, and you will find; knock,
and it will be opened to you.
Because, everyone who asks
receives, and he who seeks
finds, and to him that knocks it
will be opened.
Or what man is there among
you, who if his son asks for bread,
will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, will he
give him a serpent?
If you then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your
Father who is in heaven give good
things to those who ask Him?
Therefore, everything you
would like men to do to you, so
likewise you do to them, because
this is the Law and the Prophets.
“Enter in through the narrow
gate; because, the gate is wide
and the way is broad that leads to
destruction, and there are many
who go in through it.
Because, the gate is narrow and
the way is narrow that leads to
life, and there are few who find it.
“Beware of false prophets, who
come to you in sheep’s clothing, but
inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
You will know them by their
fruits. Do men gather grapes
from thornbushes, or figs from
thistles?
Likewise every good tree bears
good fruit, but a bad tree bears
bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad
fruit, nor can a bad tree bear
good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear
good fruit is cut down and thrown
into the fire.
Therefore by their fruits you
will know them.
“Not everyone who says to Me,
‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven, but he who
does the will of My Father who is
in heaven.
Many will say to Me in that day,
‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied
in Your name, cast out demons
in Your name, and done many
wonderful works in Your name?’
And then will I declare to them,
‘I never knew you; depart from
me, you who practice iniquity!’
“Therefore whoever hears these
sayings of Mine, and does them, I
will liken him to a wise man, who
built his house on a rock:
and the rain descended, and
the floods came, and the winds
blew and beat upon that house;
and it did not fall, because it was
founded on a rock.
“But everyone who hears
these sayings of Mine, and does
not do them, will be likened to a
foolish man who built his house
on the sand:
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and the rain descended, the
floods came, and the winds blew
and beat upon that house; and it
fell. And great was its fall.”
And so it happened, when Jesus
had ended these sayings, that the
people were astonished at His
doctrine,
because, He taught them as one
having authority, and not as the
scribes.
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When He had come down from
the mountain, large crowds followed
Him.
And behold, a leper came and
worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if
you are willing, You can make
me clean.”
And Jesus put out His hand, and
touched him, saying, “I am willing;
be cleansed.” And immediately
his leprosy was cleansed.
And Jesus said to him, “See that
you tell no one; but go your way,
show yourself to the priest, and
offer the gift that Moses commanded,
as a testimony to them.”
Now when Jesus had entered
into Capernaum, a centurion
came to Him, pleading with Him,
saying, “Lord, my servant is
lying at home paralyzed, afflicted
terribly.
And Jesus said to Him, “I will
come and heal him.”
The centurion replied and said,
“Lord, I am not worthy that You
should come under my roof. But
only speak a word, and my servant
will be healed.
Because, I also am a man under
authority, having soldiers under
me. And I say to this man, ‘Go,’ and
he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’
and he comes; and to my servant,
‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
When Jesus heard it, He marveled,
and said to those who followed,
“Truly I say to you, I have
not found such great faith, no, not
even in Israel!
And I say to you, that many
will come from the east and west,
and will sit down with Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom
of heaven.
But the children of the kingdom
will be cast out into outer
darkness. There will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.”
And Jesus said to the centurion,
“Go your way; and as you have
believed, so let it be done for you.”
And his servant was healed that
same hour.
Now when Jesus had come into
Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s
mother lying down, and sick with
a fever.
So He touched her hand, and
the fever left her. And she arose,
and ministered to them.
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When the evening had come,
they brought to Him many who
were possessed with demons. And
He cast out the spirits with His
word, and healed all who were sick,
that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through Isaiah the
prophet, saying, “He Himself took
our weaknesses, and bore our
sicknesses.”
Now when Jesus saw large
crowds around Him, He gave
orders to depart to the other side.
Then a certain scribe came and
said to him, “Teacher, I will follow
You wherever You go.”
And Jesus said to Him, “The
foxes have holes and the birds of
the air have nests, but the Son of
Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
Then another of His disciples
said to Him, “Lord, firstly permit
me to go and bury my father.”
But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me;
and let the dead bury their dead.
Now when He got into a boat,
His disciples followed Him.
And behold, a large tempest
arose on the sea, so much so that
the boat was covered with the
waves. But He was asleep.
Then his disciples came to Him,
and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save
us! We are perishing.”
But He said to them, “Why are
you fearful, O you of little faith?”
Then He arose, and rebuked the
winds and the sea, and there was
a great calm.
So the men marveled, saying,
“What type of man is this,
that even the winds and the sea
obey Him?”
And when He had come to the
other side, to the country of the
Gergesenes, there met Him two
demon possessed men, coming
out of the tombs, exceedingly
fierce, so that no one could pass
through that way.
And behold they shouted out,
saying, “What have we to do with
You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have
You come here to torment us
before the time?
Now a long distance away from
them there was a herd of many
swine feeding.
So the demons begged Him, saying,
“If You cast us out, permit us
to go away into the herd of swine.”
And He said to them, “Go.” So
when they had come out, they
went into the herd of swine. And,
behold the entire herd of swine
ran violently down the steep
place into the sea, and drowned
in the waters.
Then those who kept them fled,
and they went away into the city
and told everything, including
what had happened to the demon
possessed men.
And, behold, the entire city came
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out to meet Jesus. And when they
saw Him, they begged Him that He
would depart from their region.
CHAPTER
So He got into a boat, crossed
over, and came into His own city.
Then behold, they brought to
Him a paralytic lying on a bed.
And Jesus seeing their faith said
to the paralytic, “Son, be of good
cheer; your sins are forgiven you.”
And, immediately some of the
scribes said within themselves,
“This Man blasphemes!”
But Jesus knowing their
thoughts said, “Why do you think
evil in your hearts?
Because which is easiest to say,
‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to
say, ‘Rise up and walk?’
But that you may know that the
Son of Man has authority on earth
to forgive sins,” then He said to
the paralytic, “Rise up, take up
your bed, and go to your house.”
And he rose up, and departed to
his house.
Now when the crowds saw it, they
marveled, and glorified God, who
had given such authority to men.
And as Jesus passed on from
there, He saw a man named
Matthew sitting at the tax office.
And He said to him, “Follow Me.”
So he rose up, and followed Him.
Now it happened, as Jesus sat
at the table in the house, behold,
many tax collectors and sinners
came and sat down with Him and
His disciples.
And when the Pharisees saw it,
they said to His disciples, “Why
does your Teacher eat with tax
collectors and sinners?”
But when Jesus heard that, He
said to them, “Those who are well
have no need of a physician, but
those who are sick.
But go and learn what this
means: ‘I desire mercy and not
sacrifice.’ Because, I did not come
to call the righteous, but sinners
to repentance.”
Then the disciples of John came
to Him, saying, “Why do we and
the Pharisees fast often, but your
disciples do not fast?”
And Jesus said to them, “Can
the children of the bridechamber
mourn, as long as the bridegroom
is with them? But the days will
come, when the bridegroom will
be taken away from them, and
then they will fast.
No man puts a piece of new
cloth on old clothing, because,
that which is put in to patch it
rips away from the clothing, and
the tear is made worse.
Neither do they put new grape
juice into old wineskins, or else
the wineskins break, and the
grape juice spills out, and the
wineskins perish. But they put
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new grape juice into new wineskins,
and both are preserved.”
While He spoke these things
to them, behold, a certain ruler
came, and worshiped Him, saying,
“My daughter has just died,
but come and lay Your hand upon
her, and she will live.”
So Jesus rose up, and followed
him, and so did His disciples.
And, suddenly a woman, who
had a discharge of blood for
twelve years, came from behind
Him, and touched the edge of His
clothes.
Because she said within herself,
“If only I may touch His clothes, I
will be made well.”
But Jesus turned around, and
when He saw her, He said, “Be
cheerful daughter; your faith has
made you well.” And the woman
was made well from that hour.
And when Jesus came into
the ruler’s house, and saw the
musicians and the people making
a noise,
He said to them, “Make room,
because the girl is not dead, but is
sleeping.” And they laughed and
mocked at Him.
But when the people were put
outside, He went in and took her
by the hand, and the girl arose.
And the fame of this went out
into all that land.
And when Jesus departed from
there, two blind men followed
Him, shouting, and saying, “You,
Son of David, have mercy on us!”
And when He had come into the
house, the blind men came to Him.
And Jesus said to them, “Do you
believe that I am able to do this?”
They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”
Then He touched their eyes,
saying, “According to your faith
let it be to you.”
And their eyes were opened.
And Jesus firmly warned them,
saying, “See that no one knows it.”
But when they had departed,
they spread the fame about Him
in all that country.
As they went out, behold, they
brought to Him a mute man possessed
with a demon.
And when the demon was
cast out, the mute spoke. And
the crowds marveled, saying, “It
has never been seen like this in
Israel!”
But the Pharisees said, “He
casts out demons by the ruler of
the demons.”
Then Jesus went about all the
cities and villages, teaching in
their synagogues, preaching the
gospel of the kingdom, and healing
every sickness and every disease
among the people.
But when He saw the crowds,
He was moved with compassion
for them, because they
were exhausted, and scattered
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everywhere, like sheep having no
shepherd.
Then He said to His disciples,
“Truly the harvest is plentiful,
but the laborers are few.
Therefore pray the Lord of the
harvest that He will send out
laborers into His harvest.”
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And when He had called His
twelve disciples to Himself, He
gave them authority against
unclean spirits, to cast them out,
and to heal all kinds of sickness
and all kinds of disease.
Now the names of the twelve
apostles are these: The first,
Simon, who is called Peter, and
Andrew his brother; James the son
of Zebedee, and John his brother;
Philip and Bartholomew;
Thomas and Matthew the tax collector;
James the son of Alphaeus,
and Lebbaeus, whose surname
was Thaddaeus;
Simon the Canaanite, and Judas
Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.
These twelve Jesus sent out,
and commanded them, saying,
“Do not go into the way of the
Gentiles, and do not enter any
city of the Samaritans.
But rather go to the lost sheep of
the house of Israel.
And as you go, preach, saying,
‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
Heal the sick, cleanse the
lepers, raise the dead, cast
out demons. Freely you have
received, freely give.
Provide neither gold nor silver
nor copper in your money belts,
nor bag for your journey, nor
two coats, neither sandals, nor
staffs; because a worker is worthy
of his food.
“Now whatever city or town
you go into, inquire who is worthy
in it, and abide there until
you go from it.
And when you go into a household,
greet it.
And if the household is worthy,
let your peace come upon it. But
if it is not worthy, let your peace
return to you.
And whoever shall not receive
you nor hear your words, when
you depart from that house or city,
shake off the dust from your feet.
Truly, I say to you, it will be
more tolerable for the land of
Sodom and Gomorrah in the day
of judgment than for that city!
“Behold, I send you out as sheep
in the midst of wolves. Therefore
be wise as serpents, and harmless
as doves.
But beware of men, because,
they will deliver you up to councils
and they will scourge you in
their synagogues.
And you will be brought before
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governors and kings for My sake,
as a testimony against them and
the Gentiles.
But when they deliver you up,
do not worry about how or what
you shall speak. Because, it will
be given to you in that same hour
what you shall speak;
because it is not you who is
speaking, but the Spirit of your
Father who speaks in you.
“Now brother will deliver up
brother to death, and the father
his child; and the children will
rise up against their parents and
cause them to be put to death.
And you will be hated by all people
for My name’s sake. But he who
endures to the end will be saved.
But when they persecute you in
one city, flee to another. Because,
truly, I say to you, you will not have
gone through the cities of Israel,
before the Son of Man comes.
“A disciple is not above his
teacher, nor the servant above
his master.
It is enough for the disciple to
be like his teacher, and the servant
as his master. If they have
called the master of the house
Beelzebub, how much more will
they call those of his household!
Therefore do not fear them.
Because, there is nothing covered,
that will not be revealed, and hidden,
that will not be known.
“Whatever I tell you in the dark,
that speak in the light; and what
you hear in the ear, that preach on
the housetops.
And do not fear those who kill
the body but cannot kill the soul.
But rather reverence Him who
is able to destroy both soul and
body in hell.
Are not two sparrows sold for a
copper coin? And not one of them
falls to the ground without your
Father’s knowledge.
But the very hairs of your head
are all numbered.
Do not fear therefore; you are of
more value than many sparrows.
“Therefore whoever confesses
Me before men, him I will also
confess before My Father who is
in heaven.
But whoever denies Me before
men, him I will also deny before
My Father who is in heaven.
“Do not think that I came to
bring peace on earth. I did not
come to bring peace, but a sword.
Because, I have come to ‘divide
a man against his father, and a
daughter against her mother,
and a daughter in law against her
mother in law,’
and ‘a man’s enemies shall be
those of his own household.’
He who loves father or mother
more than Me is not worthy of
Me. And he who loves son or
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daughter more than Me is not
worthy of Me.
And he who does not take up
his cross, and follow after Me, is
not worthy of Me.
He who finds his life will lose
it, and he who loses his life for My
sake will find it.
“He who receives you receives
Me, and he who receives Me
receives Him who sent Me.
He who receives a prophet in
the name of a prophet will receive
a prophet’s reward. And he who
receives a righteous man in the
name of a righteous man will
receive a righteous man’s reward.
And whoever gives one of these
little ones just a cup of cold water
to drink in the name of a disciple,
truly I say to you, he will by no
means lose his reward.”
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And it came to pass, when Jesus
had finished commanding His
twelve disciples, that He departed
from there to teach and to preach
in their cities.
Now when John had heard in the
prison about the works of Christ,
he sent two of his disciples,
And said to Him, “Are You He
who should come, or do we look
for another?”
Jesus answered and said to them,
“Go and show John again those
things which you hear and see:
The blind receive their sight
and the lame walk; the lepers are
cleansed and the deaf hear; the
dead are raised up and the poor
have the gospel preached to them.
And blessed is he, who is not
offended because of Me.”
And as they departed, Jesus
began to say to the crowds concerning
John: “What did you go
out into the wilderness to see? A
reed shaken by the wind?
But what did you go out to see?
A man clothed in fine clothing?
Behold, those who wear fine clothing
are in kings’ houses.
But what did you go out to see?
A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and
more than a prophet.
Because, this is he, of whom it is
written: ‘Behold, I send My messenger
before Your face, who will
prepare Your way before You.’
“Truly I say to you, among
those born of women there has
not risen one greater than John
the Baptist; but he who is least in
the kingdom of heaven is greater
than him.
And from the days of John the
Baptist until now the kingdom of
heaven suffers violence, and the
violent take it by force.
Because, all the prophets and
the law prophesied until John.
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And if you are willing to receive
it, this is Elijah who was to come
beforehand.
He who has ears to hear, let
him hear!
But to what shall I liken this
generation? It is likened to children
sitting in the marketplaces,
and calling to their friends,
and saying: ‘We played the flute
for you, and you did not dance; we
have mourned to you, and you did
not lament.’
Because, John came neither
eating nor drinking, and they say,
‘He has a demon.’
The Son of Man came eating
and drinking, and they say,
‘Behold a gluttonous man, and a
wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors
and sinners!’ But wisdom
is justified by her children.”
Then He began to rebuke the
cities in which most of His mighty
works had been done, because
they did not repent:
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to
you, Bethsaida! Because, if the
mighty works, which were done
in you, had been done in Tyre and
Sidon, they would have repented
long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
But I say to you, it will be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the
day of judgment than for you.
And you, Capernaum, who are
exalted to heaven, will be brought
down to hell; because, if the mighty
works, which were done in you,
had been done in Sodom, it would
have remained until this day.
But I say to you that it will be
more tolerable for the land of
Sodom in the day of judgment
than for you.”
At that time Jesus responded
and said, “I thank you, O Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, because
You have hidden these things
from the wise and prudent, and
have revealed them to babes.
Even so Father, because in
this manner it seemed good in
Your sight.
All things are delivered to Me
by My Father, and no one knows
the Son, except for the Father.
Neither does anyone know the
Father, except for the Son, and
to the one whom the Son wills to
reveal Him.
Come to Me, all you who labor
and have a heavy burden, and I
will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you, and
learn from Me, because, I am
meek and lowly in heart, and you
will find rest for your souls.
Because, My yoke is easy, and
My burden is light.”
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At that time Jesus went through
the grainfields on the Sabbath
day. And His disciples were
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hungry, and began to pluck the
heads of grain and to eat.
But when the Pharisees saw it,
they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples
are doing what is not lawful
to do on the Sabbath day!”
But He said to them, “Have you
not read what David did when he
was hungry, and those who were
with him:
how he entered into the house
of God, and ate the showbread,
which was not lawful for him to
eat, nor for those who were with
him, but only for the priests?
Or have you not read in the
law, that on the Sabbath days the
priests in the temple profane the
Sabbath, and are blameless?
But I say to you that in this
place there is One greater than
the temple.
And if you had known what this
means, ‘I desire mercy, and not
sacrifice,’ you would not have
condemned the guiltless.
Because the Son of Man is Lord
even of the Sabbath day”
Now when He had departed
from there, He went into their
synagogue.
And behold, there was a man
who had a withered hand. And
they asked Him, saying, “Is it lawful
to heal on the Sabbath days?”
That they might accuse Him.
And He said to them, “What
man would there be among you,
who has one sheep, and if it falls
into a pit on the Sabbath day, will
not lay hold of it and lift it out?
How much better then is a man
than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful
to do good on the Sabbath days.”
Then He said to the man,
“Stretch out your hand.” And
he stretched it out, and it was
restored as whole as the other.
Then the Pharisees went out
and held a council against Him,
how they might destroy Him.
But when Jesus knew it, He
withdrew Himself from there.
And large crowds followed Him,
and He healed them all.
And commanded them that
they should not make Him known,
that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through Isaiah the
prophet, saying:
“Behold! My Servant, whom
I have chosen, My beloved, in
whom My soul is well pleased!
I will put My Spirit upon Him,
and He will show justice to the
Gentiles.
He will not strive, nor shout,
nor will anyone hear His voice in
the streets.
A bruised reed He will not
break, and smoking flax He will
not quench, until He sends forth
justice to victory;
And in His name shall the
Gentiles trust.”
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Then one was brought to Him
who was possessed with a demon,
blind and mute; and He healed
him, so that the blind and mute
both spoke and saw.
And all the people were
amazed and said, “Is not this the
Son of David?”
But when the Pharisees heard it,
they said, “This one does not cast
out demons, except by Beelzebub,
the ruler of the demons.”
But Jesus knew their thoughts,
and said to them: “Every kingdom
divided against itself is brought
to desolation, and every city or
house divided against itself will
not stand.
And if Satan casts out Satan, he
is divided against himself. How
then will his kingdom stand?
And if I cast out demons by
Beelzebub, by whom do your children
cast them out? Therefore
they will be your judges.
But if I cast out demons by the
Spirit of God, then the kingdom of
God has come to you.
Or else how can one enter a
strong man’s house, and plunder
his goods, unless he first binds
the strong man? And then he
shall plunder his house.
He that is not with Me is against
Me; and he that does not gather
with Me scatters abroad.
“Therefore I say to you, every
type of sin and blasphemy will be
forgiven men, but the blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit will not be
forgiven men.
And whosoever speaks a word
against the Son of Man, it will
be forgiven him; but whoever
speaks against the Holy Spirit,
it will not be forgiven him, neither
in this age, nor in the age
to come.
“Either make the tree good, and
its fruit good, or else make the
tree bad, and its fruit bad: because
the tree is known by its fruit.
O generation of vipers, how can
you being evil, speak good things?
Since out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaks!
A good man out of the good
treasure of the heart brings forth
good things, and an evil man out
of the evil treasure brings forth
evil things.
But I say to you that every idle
word that men will speak, they
will give account of it in the day
of judgment.
Because, by your words you will
be justified, and by your words
you will be condemned.”
Then some of the scribes and
Pharisees responded, saying,
“Teacher, we want to see a sign
from You.”
But He replied and said to them,
“An evil and adulterous generation
seeks after a sign, and no
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sign will be given to it except the
sign of the prophet Jonah.
Because, as Jonah was three
days and three nights in the
whale’s belly, so will the Son of
Man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh will rise
in judgment with this generation
and will condemn it, because
they repented at the preaching of
Jonah; and behold, a greater than
Jonah is here.
The queen of the south will
rise up in the judgment with this
generation and will condemn it,
because, she came from the ends
of the earth to hear the wisdom
of Solomon; and behold, a greater
than Solomon is here.
“When an unclean spirit goes
out of a man, he goes through
dry places, seeking rest, and
finds none.
Then he says, ‘I shall return to
my house from which I came out.’
And when he has come, he finds
it empty, swept, and put in order.
Then he goes, and takes with
him seven other spirits more
wicked than himself, and they
enter in and dwell there; and the
last state of that man is worse
than the first. Even so will it be to
this wicked generation.”
While He was still talking to
the people, behold, His mother
and His brethren stood outside,
wanting to speak with Him.
Then one said to Him, “Look,
Your mother and Your brethren
are standing outside, wanting to
speak with You.”
But He replied and said to him
who told Him, “Who is My mother
and who are My brethren?
And He stretched out His hand
toward His disciples, and said,
“Behold, My mother and My
brethren!
Because, whoever does the will
of My Father who is in heaven,
that one is My brother and sister
and mother.”
CHAPTER
That same day Jesus went out of
the house, and sat beside the sea.
And large crowds were gathered
about Him, so that He got into
a boat, and sat; and the entire
crowd stood on the shore.
Then He spoke many things to
them in parables, saying: “Behold,
a sower went out to sow.
And as he sowed, some seeds
fell by the way side; and the birds
came and devoured them.
Some fell on stony places,
where they did not have much
earth; and they immediately
sprang up because they had no
depth of earth.
But when the sun was up they
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were scorched, and because they
had no root they withered away.
And some fell among thorns,
and the thorns sprung up and
choked them.
But others fell into good ground
and bore fruit: some a hundredfold,
some sixty, some thirty.
He who has ears to hear, let
him hear!”
And the disciples came and
said to Him, “Why do You speak
to them in parables?”
He answered and said to them,
“Because, it has been given to
you to know the mysteries of the
kingdom of heaven, but to them it
has not been given.
Because whoever has, to him
more will be given, and he will
have abundance; but whoever
does not have, even what he has
will be taken away from him.
Therefore I speak to them in
parables, because, seeing they do
not see, and hearing they do not
hear, nor do they understand.
And in them the prophecy of
Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘By
hearing you will hear, and will
not understand, and seeing you
will see, and will not perceive;
because the hearts of this people
have grown dull, their ears are
dull of hearing, and their eyes they
have closed, lest they should see
with their eyes and hear with their
ears, and should understand with
their hearts and would be converted,
so that I should heal them.’
But blessed are your eyes
because they see, and your ears
because they hear;
because truly, I say to you, that
many prophets and righteous men
have desired to see those things
which you see, and did not see it,
and hear those things which you
hear, and did not hear it.
“Therefore all of you, hear the
parable of the sower:
When anyone hears the word
of the kingdom, and does not
understand it, then the wicked
one comes and snatches away
what was sown in his heart. This
is the one which received seed by
the wayside.
But he who received the seed
on stony places, this is the one
who hears the word and immediately
receives it with joy;
yet he has no root in himself,
but endures only for a while.
Because when tribulation or persecution
arises because of the
word, immediately he stumbles.
Now he who received seed
among the thorns is he who hears
the word, and the worries of this
world and the deceitfulness of
riches choke the word, and he
becomes unfruitful.
But he who received seed on
the good ground is he who hears
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the word and understands it, who
also bears fruit and produces:
some a hundredfold, some sixty,
some thirty.”
He put before them another
parable, saying: “The kingdom of
heaven is like a man who sowed
good seed in his field;
but while men slept, his enemy
came and sowed tares among the
wheat and went his way.
So when the grain had sprouted
and produced a crop, then the
tares also appeared.
So the servants of the householder
came and said to him, ‘Sir,
did you not sow good seed in your
field? How then does it have tares?’
He said to them, ‘An enemy has
done this.’ The servants said to
him, ‘Do you want us then to go
and gather them up?’
But he said, ‘No, lest while
you gather up the tares you also
uproot the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until
the harvest, and at harvest time I
will tell the reapers, “First gather
together the tares and bind them
in bundles to burn them, but
gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
He put before them another
parable, saying: “The kingdom of
heaven is like a grain of mustard
seed, that a man took and sowed
in his field,
which indeed is the least of all
the seeds; but when it is grown
it is greater than the herbs and
becomes a tree, so that the birds
of the air come and nest in its
branches.”
He spoke another parable to
them: “The kingdom of heaven is
like leaven, which a woman took
and hid inside three measures of
flour until it was all leavened.”
Jesus spoke all these things to
the crowds in parables; and He
did not speak to them without a
parable,
that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through the prophet,
saying: “I will open My mouth in
parables; I will utter things which
have been kept secret since the
foundation of the world.”
Then Jesus sent the crowd away
and went into the house. And His
disciples came to Him, saying,
“Explain to us the parable of the
tares of the field.”
He replied and said to them:
“He who sows the good seed is the
Son of Man.
The field is the world, the good
seed are the children of the kingdom,
but the tares are the children
of the wicked one.
The enemy who sowed them is
the devil, the harvest is the end
of the age, and the reapers are
the angels.
Therefore as the tares are
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gathered and burned in the fire,
so it will be at the end of this age.
The Son of Man will send out
His angels, and they will gather
out of His kingdom all things
that cause offense, and those who
practice iniquity,
and will throw them into the
furnace of fire. There will be
wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine
forth as the sun in the kingdom
of their Father. He who has ears to
hear, let him hear!
“Again, the kingdom of Heaven
is like treasure hidden in a field,
which when a man finds, he hides;
and for joy over it he goes and sells
all that he has and buys that field.
“Again, the kingdom of Heaven
is like a merchant man seeking
choice pearls,
who, when he had found one
pearl of great price, went and sold
all that he had and bought it.
“Again, the kingdom of heaven
is like a dragnet that was cast
into the sea and gathered some of
every kind,
which, when it was full, they
drew to shore; and sat down and
gathered the good into vessels,
but threw the bad away.
So it will be at the end of the
age. The angels will come forth,
separate the wicked from among
the just,
and will cast them into the furnace
of fire. There will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.”
Jesus said to them, “Have you
understood all these things?”
They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”
Then He said to them,
“Therefore every scribe which is
instructed concerning the kingdom
of heaven is like a man who is
a householder who brings out of
his treasure things new and old.”
Now it came to pass, when Jesus
had finished these parables, that
He departed from there.
And when He had come to His
own country, He taught them in
their synagogue, so that they
were astonished and said, “Where
did this Man get this wisdom and
these mighty works?
Is this not the carpenter’s son?
Is not His mother called Mary?
And His brothers James, Joses,
Simon, and Judas?
And His sisters, are they not all
with us? Where then did this Man
get all these things?”
So they were offended at
Him. But Jesus said to them, “A
prophet is not without honor
except in his own country and in
his own house.”
So He did not do many mighty
works there because of their
unbelief.
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CHAPTER
At that time Herod the tetrarch
heard about the fame of Jesus,
and said to his servants, “This is
John the Baptist; he is risen from
the dead, and therefore mighty
works display themselves in him.”
Because, Herod had laid hold of
John and bound him, and put him
in prison because of Herodias, his
brother Philip’s wife.
Because, John said to him, “It is
not lawful for you to have her.”
And when he wanted to put him
to death, he feared the crowds,
because, they considered him to
be a prophet.
But when Herod’s birthday
was celebrated, the daughter of
Herodias danced before them and
pleased Herod.
So he promised with an oath to
give her whatever she might ask.
So she being instructed beforehand
by her mother said, “Give
me John the Baptist’s head here
on a platter.”
And the king was grieved: nevertheless
because of the oath’s
sake and those who sat with him
at the table, he commanded it to
be given to her.
So he sent, and beheaded John
in the prison.
And his head was brought on a
platter, and given to the girl, and
she brought it to her mother.
Then his disciples came, and
took away the body, and buried it,
and went and told Jesus.
When Jesus heard this, He
departed from there by boat into a
deserted place by Himself. But when
the crowds heard of it, they followed
Him on foot from the cities.
And Jesus went out and saw
a large crowd; and was moved
with compassion for them and He
healed their sick.
Now when it was evening, His
disciples came to Him, saying,
“This is a desert place, and the
hour is already late. Send the
crowds away, that they may go
into the villages and buy sustenance
for themselves.”
But Jesus said to them, “They
do not need to leave. You give
them something to eat.”
And they said to Him, “We have
only five loaves, and two fish
with us.”
He said, “Bring them here to Me.”
Then He commanded the
crowds to sit down on the grass.
And He took the five loaves and
the two fish, and looking up to
heaven, He blessed and broke, and
gave the loaves to His disciples;
and the disciples to the crowds.
So they all ate and were filled,
and they took up twelve baskets
full of the fragments that
remained.
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Now those who had eaten were
about five thousand men, besides
women and children.
And immediately Jesus made
His disciples to get into a boat and
go before Him to the other side,
while He sent the crowds away.
And when He had sent the
crowds away, He went up on a
mountain by Himself to pray.
Now when evening came, He was
there alone.
But the boat was now in the
midst of the sea, tossed by the
waves, because the wind was
contrary.
Now in the fourth watch of the
night Jesus went to them, walking
on the sea.
And when the disciples saw
Him walking on the sea, they
were troubled, saying, “It is a
spirit!” And they shouted out
through fear.
But immediately Jesus spoke to
them, saying, “Be cheerful! It is
Me; do not be afraid.”
And Peter replied to Him and
said, “Lord, if it is You, tell me to
come to You on the water.”
And He said, “Come.” And when
Peter had come down out of the boat,
he walked on the water to go to Jesus.
But when he saw the wind was
strong, he was afraid; and beginning
to sink, he shouted out, saying,
“Lord, save me!”
And immediately Jesus stretched
out His hand, and caught him, and
said to him, “O you of little faith,
why did you doubt?”
And when they got into the
boat, the wind ceased.
Then those who were in the boat
came and worshiped Him, saying,
“Truly You are the Son of God.”
And when they had crossed
over, they came into the land of
Gennesaret.
And when the men of that place
recognized Him, they sent out into
all that surrounding region, and
brought to Him all who were sick,
and begged Him that they
might only touch the edge of His
clothes. And as many as touched
it were made perfectly well.
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Then the scribes and Pharisees
who were from Jerusalem came
to Jesus saying,
“Why do Your disciples transgress
the tradition of the elders?
Because they do not wash their
hands when they eat bread.”
But He answered and said to
them, “Why do you also transgress
the commandment of God
by your tradition?
Because, God commanded,
saying, Honor your father and
mother; and, He who curses
father or mother, let him be put
to death.
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But you say, ‘Whosoever says to
his father or his mother, “Whatever
profit you may have received from
me has become a gift,”
and does not honor his father
or his mother, because he will be
exempt.’ Thus you have made the
commandment of God of no effect
by your tradition.
You hypocrites! Isaiah correctly
prophesied about you, saying:
‘These people draw near to Me
with their mouth, and honor Me
with their lips, but their heart is
far from Me.
But in vain they worship Me,
teaching as doctrines the commandments
of men.’”
Then He called the crowds
and said to them, “Hear and
understand:
Not what goes into the mouth
defiles a man; but what comes out
of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
Then His disciples came and
said to Him, “Do You know that
the Pharisees were offended
when they heard this saying?”
But He answered and said,
“Every plant which My heavenly
Father has not planted will be
uprooted.
Leave them alone. They are
blind leaders of the blind. And
if the blind leads the blind, both
will fall into a ditch.”
Then Peter replied and said to
Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
And Jesus said, “Are you also
still without understanding?
Do you still not understand that
whatever enters into the mouth
goes into the stomach, and is cast
out into the drain?
But those things which proceed
out of the mouth come from the
heart, and they defile a man.
Because, out of the heart comes
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies.
These are the things which defile
a man, but to eat with unwashed
hands does not defile a man.”
Then Jesus went out from there
and departed to the region of
Tyre and Sidon.
And behold, a woman of Canaan
came from that region, and
shouted to Him, saying, “Have
mercy on me, O Lord, You Son of
David! My daughter is severely
tormented with a demon.”
But He did not reply one word
to her. And His disciples came and
asked Him, saying, “Send her away;
because, she shouts out to us.”
But He replied and said, “I am
not sent except to the lost sheep
of the house of Israel.”
Then she came and worshiped
Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”
But He replied and said, “It is
not good to take the children’s
bread, and throw it to dogs.”
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And she said, “True, Lord, yet
the dogs eat the crumbs which
fall from their masters’ table.”
Then Jesus replied and said to
her, “O woman, great is your faith!
Let it be to you as you desire.” And
her daughter was healed from
that very hour.
Then Jesus left there, and came
near to the sea of Galilee, and
went up on a mountain, and sat
down there.
And large crowds came to
Him, having with them those who
were lame, blind, mute, maimed,
and many others; and they laid
them down at Jesus’ feet; and He
healed them.
So the crowds marveled when
they saw the mute speaking, the
maimed made whole, the lame
walking, and the blind seeing; and
they glorified the God of Israel.
Then Jesus called His disciples to
Himself and said, “I have compassion
on the crowd, because, they have
continued with Me for three days
now and have nothing to eat. And
I do not want to send them away
fasting, lest they faint on the way.”
And His disciples said to Him,
“Where could we get enough
bread in the wilderness to fill
such a large crowd?”
And Jesus said to them, “How
many loaves do you have?” And
they said, “Seven, and a few
small fish.”
And He commanded the crowd
to sit down on the ground.
And He took the seven loaves
and the fish and gave thanks, then
broke them and gave to His disciples;
and the disciples to the crowd.
So they all ate, and were filled,
and they took up seven large
baskets full of the fragments that
were left.
Now those who ate were four
thousand men, besides women
and children.
And He sent the crowd away,
got into a boat, and came into the
region of Magdala.
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The Pharisees also with the
Sadducees came, and testing Him
asked that He would show them a
sign from heaven.
He answered and said to them,
“When it is evening, you say, ‘It
will be fair weather, because the
sky is red’;
and in the morning, ‘It will be
foul weather today, because the
sky is red and overcast.’ O you
hypocrites! You can discern the
face of the sky, but can you not
discern the signs of the times?
A wicked and adulterous generation
seeks after a sign; and there
will be no sign given to it except
the sign of the prophet Jonah.”
And He left them, and departed.
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Now when His disciples had
come to the other side, they had
forgotten to take bread.
Then Jesus said to them, “Take
heed and beware of the leaven
of the Pharisees and of the
Sadducees.”
And they reasoned among
themselves, saying, “It is because
we have not taken bread.”
Which when Jesus perceived it He
said to them, “O you of little faith,
why do you reason among yourselves
because you have brought
no bread?
Do you still not understand, or
remember the five loaves of the
five thousand and how many baskets
you took up?
Nor the seven loaves of the four
thousand and how many huge
baskets you took up?
How is it that you do not understand
that I did not speak this to
you concerning bread, but that
you should beware of the leaven
of the Pharisees and Sadducees?”
Then they understood that He
did not tell them to beware of the
leaven of bread, but of the doctrine
of the Pharisees and of the
Sadducees.
When Jesus came into the region
of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His
disciples, saying, “Who do men
say that I the Son of Man, am?”
So they said, “Some say that You
are John the Baptist, some, Elijah,
and others Jeremiah, or one of the
prophets.”
He said to them, “But who do
you say that I am?”
And Simon Peter answered and
said, “You are the Christ, the Son
of the living God.”
And Jesus replied and said to
him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-
Jonah, because flesh and blood
has not revealed this to you, but
My Father who is in heaven.
And I also say to you that you
are Peter, and upon this Rock I will
build My church; and the gates of
hell will not prevail against it.
And I will give you the keys of
the kingdom of heaven, and whatever
you will bind on earth will
be bound in heaven, and whatever
you will loose on earth will
be loosed in heaven.”
Then He commanded His disciples
that they should not tell anyone
that He was Jesus the Christ.
From that time forward Jesus
began to show to His disciples
how that He must go to Jerusalem,
and suffer many things from
the elders and chief priests and
scribes, and be killed, and be
raised again the third day.
Then Peter took Him aside, and
began to rebuke Him, saying, “Let
this be far from You Lord; this
will not happen to You!”
But He turned and said to Peter,
“Get behind Me Satan! You are an
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offense to Me, because, you are
not thinking things that are of
God, but those that are of man.”
Then said Jesus to His disciples,
“If anyone desires to come after
Me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow Me.
Because, whoever desires to
save his life will lose it, but whoever
desires to lose his life for My
sake will find it.
Because, what does a man profit
if he gains the entire world, and
loses his own soul? Or what shall a
man give in exchange for his soul?
Because, the Son of Man will
come in the glory of His Father with
His angels, and then He will reward
everyone according to his works.
Truly, I say to you, there are
some standing here who will
not taste death, until they see
the Son of Man coming in His
kingdom.
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Now after six days Jesus took
Peter, James, and John his brother,
and led them up on a high mountain
by themselves;
and He was transfigured before
them, so His face shone like the
sun, and His clothes became as
white as the light.
And behold, Moses and Elijah
appeared to them there, talking
with Him.
Then Peter responded and said
to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us
to be here; if you want to, let us
make three tabernacles here; one
for You, one for Moses, and one
for Elijah.”
While he still spoke, behold, a
bright cloud overshadowed them;
and suddenly a voice came out
of the cloud, saying, “This is My
beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased. Hear Him!”
And when the disciples heard it,
they fell on their faces and were
greatly afraid.
But Jesus came and touched
them and said, “Arise, and do not
be afraid.”
And when they had lifted up
their eyes, they saw no one,
except Jesus only.
Now as they came down from
the mountain, Jesus commanded
them, saying, “Tell the vision to
no one until the Son of Man is
risen again from the dead.”
Then His disciples asked Him,
saying, “Why then do the scribes
say that Elijah must come first?”
So Jesus answered and said to
them, “Truly Elijah is coming
first, and will restore all things.
But I say to you, that Elijah has
come already and they did not
know him, but did to him whatever
they desired. Likewise the Son of
Man will suffer by them also.”
Then the disciples understood
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that He spoke to them about John
the Baptist.
And when they came to the
crowd, a certain man came to Him,
kneeling down to Him and saying,
“Lord, have mercy on my son,
because, he is crazy, and suffers
greatly; because he often falls into
the fire and often into the water.
And I brought him to Your disciples,
but they could not cure him.”
Then Jesus responded and said,
“O faithless and perverse generation,
how long shall I be with you?
How long shall I put up with you?
Bring him here to Me.”
And Jesus rebuked the demon,
and he came out of him; and
the child was cured from that
very hour.
Then the disciples came to Jesus
privately and said, “Why could we
not cast him out?”
And Jesus said to them, “Because
of your unbelief; because, truly, I
say to you, If you have faith as a
grain of mustard seed, you shall
say to this mountain, ‘Move from
here to there,’ and it will move;
and nothing will be impossible
for you.
However this kind does not go
out except by prayer and fasting.”
Now while they were staying in
Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The
Son of Man will be betrayed into
the hands of men,
and they will kill Him, and the
third day He will be raised again.”
And they were exceedingly
sorrowful.
And when they had come to
Capernaum, those who received
tax money came to Peter, and said,
“Does your Teacher not pay tax?”
He said, “Yes.” And when he had
come into the house, Jesus came
before him, saying, “What do you
think, Simon? From whom do the
kings of the earth take customs
or taxes, from their own children,
or from strangers?”
Peter said to Him, “From strangers.”
Jesus said to him, “Then the
children are free.
Nevertheless, lest we should
offend them, go to the sea, and
cast in a hook, and take up the
first fish that comes up. And
when you have opened its mouth,
you will find a piece of money;
take that, and give it to them for
Me and you.”
CHAPTER
At the same time the disciples
came to Jesus, saying, “Who is
the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven?”
And Jesus called a little child to
Himself, and set him in the midst
of them,
and said, “Truly, I say to you,
unless you are converted, and
become as little children, you
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will not enter into the kingdom
of heaven.
Therefore whoever humbles
himself as this little child, they
are the greatest in the kingdom
of heaven.
And whoever receives one little
child like this in My name
receives Me.
But whoever causes one of these
little ones who believe in Me to
stumble, it would be better for
him if a millstone were hung
around his neck, and that he were
drowned in the depth of the sea.
Woe to the world because of
offenses! Because, offenses must
come, but woe to that man by
whom the offense comes!
So if your hand or your foot
offends you, cut them off and
throw them away from you. It is
better for you to enter into life
lame or maimed, rather than
having two hands or two feet, to
be thrown into everlasting fire.
And if your eye offends you,
pluck it out and throw it away
from you. It is better for you
to enter into life with one eye,
rather than having two eyes, to
be thrown into hell fire.
Beware that you do not despise
one of these little ones, because,
I say to you that in heaven their
angels always behold the face of
My Father who is in heaven.
Because the Son of Man has
come to save that which was lost.
“What do you think? If a man
has a hundred sheep, and one
of them goes astray, does he not
leave the ninety nine and go to
the mountains to seek the one
that has gone astray?
And if he happens to find it,
truly, I say to you, he rejoices
more over that sheep than over the
ninety nine that did not go astray.
Likewise it is not the will of your
Father who is in heaven that one
of these little ones should perish.
“Also if your brother sins
against you, go and tell him his
fault between you and him alone.
If he hears you, you have gained
your brother.
But if he will not hear you, then
take with you one or two more,
that ‘by the mouth of two or
three witnesses every word may
be established.’
And if he refuses to hear
them, tell it to the church. But if
he refuses even to listen to the
church, let him be to you as a heathen
and a tax collector.
“Truly, I say to you, whatever
you will bind on earth will be
bound in heaven and whatever
you will loose on earth will be
loosed in heaven.
“Again I say to you that if two
of you agree on earth concerning
anything that they ask, it will be
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done for them of My Father who
is in heaven.
Because, where two or three are
gathered together in My name, I
am there in the midst of them.”
Then Peter came to Him and
said, “Lord, how often shall my
brother sin against me, and I forgive
him? Until seven times?”
Jesus said to him, “I do not say
to you, until seven times, but
until seventy times seven.
Therefore the kingdom of
heaven is like a certain king who
wanted to settle accounts with
his servants.
And when he had begun to settle
accounts, one was brought to
him who owed him ten thousand
talents.
But since he had no means to
pay, his master commanded him
to be sold, with his wife and children
and all that he owned, and
that payment be made.
So the servant fell down and
worshiped him, saying, ‘Master,
have patience with me, and I will
repay everything to you.’
Then the Master of that servant
was moved with compassion,
released him, and forgave him
the debt.
“But the same servant went out
and found one of his fellow servants,
who owed him a hundred
denarii: and he laid hands on him
and took him by the throat, saying,
‘Pay me what you owe!’
So his fellow servant fell down
at his feet and begged him, saying,
‘Have patience with me, and I
will repay everything to you.’
And he would not, but went
and put him into prison until he
should pay the debt.
So when his fellow servants saw
what had been done, they were
very grieved, and came and told
their master all that was done.
Then his master, after he had
summoned him, said to him, ‘O you
wicked servant! I forgave you all
that debt because you begged me.
Should you not also have had
compassion on your fellow servant,
just as I had pity on you?’
And his master was angry, and
delivered him to the torturers
until he should pay all that was
due to him.
“So likewise will my heavenly
Father also do to you if each of
you, from his heart, does not forgive
his brother their trespasses.”
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Now it came to pass, when
Jesus had finished these sayings,
that He departed from Galilee
and came to the region of Judea
beyond the Jordan.
And large crowds followed Him,
and He healed them there.
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The Pharisees also came to Him,
testing Him, and saying to Him,
“Is it lawful for a man to put away
his wife for just any reason?”
And He answered and said to
them, “Have you not read that He
who made them in the beginning
‘made them male and female,’
And said, ‘For this reason a man
shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife, and the
two will be one flesh?’
Therefore they are no longer
two but one flesh. Therefore what
God has joined together, let not
man separate.”
They said to Him, “Why then did
Moses command to give a certificate
of divorce, and to separate
from her?”
He said to them, “Moses, because
of the hardness of your hearts,
permitted you to put away your
wives, but from the beginning it
was not so.
And I say to you, whoever puts
away his wife, except it be for
sexual immorality, and marries
another, commits adultery; and
whoever marries her who is put
away commits adultery.”
His disciples said to Him, “If this
is the situation of the man with
his wife, it is not good to marry.”
But He said to them, “Not all
men can accept this saying, except
those to whom it is given:
Because, there are some
eunuchs who were born so from
their mother’s womb, and there
are some eunuchs who were made
eunuchs by men, and there are
eunuchs who have made themselves
eunuchs for the sake of the
kingdom of heaven. He who is
able to accept it, let him accept it.”
Then little children were
brought to Him so that He might
lay His hands on them and pray,
but the disciples rebuked them.
But Jesus said, “Permit little
children to come to Me and do
not forbid them; because, of such
is the kingdom of heaven.”
And He laid His hands on them
and departed from there.
And, behold, one came and said
to Him, “Good Teacher, what good
thing should I do that I may have
eternal life?”
And He said to him, “Why do
you call Me good? No one is good
except One, that is, God. But if you
want to enter into life, keep the
commandments.”
He said to Him, “Which ones?”
Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’
‘You shall not commit adultery,’
‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You
shall not bear false witness,’
‘Honor your father and your
mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.’”
The young man said to Him, “I
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have kept all these things from
my youth. What do I still lack?”
Jesus said to Him, “If you want
to be perfect, go and sell what you
have and give to the poor, and you
will have treasure in heaven; and
come and follow Me.”
But when the young man heard
that saying, he went away sorrowful,
because he had many
possessions.
Then Jesus said to His disciples,
“Truly, I say to you, that it is hard
for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of heaven.
And again I say to you, it is easier
for a camel to go through the
eye of a needle than for a rich man
to enter into the kingdom of God.”
When His disciples heard it,
they were greatly amazed, saying,
“Who then can be saved?”
But Jesus looked at them and
said to them, “With men this
is impossible, but with God all
things are possible.”
Then Peter replied and said
to Him, “Look, we have left
everything, and followed You.
Therefore what shall we have?”
And Jesus said to them, “Truly,
I say to you, that in the regeneration
when the Son of Man sits
on the throne of His glory, you
who have followed Me will also sit
upon twelve thrones, judging the
twelve tribes of Israel.
And everyone who has left
houses or brothers or sisters or
father or mother or wife or children
or lands, for My name’s sake,
will receive a hundredfold, and
will inherit everlasting life.
But many who are first will be
last, and the last will be first.”
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“Because, the kingdom of
heaven is likened to a man who is
a householder who went out early
in the morning to hire laborers
for his vineyard.
Now when he had agreed with
the laborers for a denarius a day,
he sent them into his vineyard.
And he went out about the third
hour, and saw others standing
idle in the marketplace,
and said to them, ‘You also go
into the vineyard, and whatever
is right I will give you.’ So they
went their way.
Again he went out about the
sixth and ninth hour, and did
likewise.
And about the eleventh hour he
went out and found others standing
idle and said to them, ‘Why
have you been standing here idle
all day?’
They said to him, ‘Because no
one has hired us.’ He said to them,
‘You also go into the vineyard,
and whatever is right that you will
receive.’
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So when evening had come, the
master of the vineyard said to his
steward, ‘Call the laborers and
give them their wages, beginning
from the last to the first.’
And when those came who were
hired about the eleventh hour,
everyone received a denarius each.
But when the first came, they
supposed that they would receive
more; and they likewise received
a denarius each.
And when they had received it,
they murmured against the good
householder,
saying, ‘These last have worked
only one hour, and you have
made them equal to us who have
endured the burden and heat of
the day.’
But he responded to one of
them and said, ‘Friend, I am doing
you no wrong. Did you not agree
with me for a denarius?
Take what is yours, and go your
way. I desire to give to the last,
the same as you.
Is it not lawful for me to do what
I want with my own things? Is your
eye corrupt because I am good?’
So the last will be first, and
the first last. Because many are
called, but few are chosen.
Now Jesus, going up to Jerusalem,
took the twelve disciples aside on
the road, and said to them,
“Behold, we are going up to
Jerusalem, and the Son of Man
will be betrayed to the chief
priests and to the scribes; and
they will condemn Him to death,
and will deliver Him to the
Gentiles to mock and to scourge
and to crucify Him. And the third
day He will rise again.”
Then the mother of Zebedee’s
children came to Him with her
sons, worshiping Him, and asking
something from Him.
And He said to her, “What do
you desire?” She said to Him,
“Permit that these two sons of
mine may sit, one on Your right
hand and the other on the left, in
Your kingdom.”
But Jesus answered and said,
“You do not know what you ask.
Are you able to drink of the cup
that I will drink of, and to be baptized
with the baptism that I am
baptized with?” They said to Him,
“We are able.”
So He said to them, “You will
indeed drink My cup, and be baptized
with the baptism that I am
baptized with; but to sit on My
right hand and on My left is not
Mine to give, but it will be given to
those for whom it is prepared by
My Father.”
And when the ten heard it, they
were moved with indignation
with the two brethren.
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But Jesus called them to Himself,
and said, “You know that the rulers
of the Gentiles dominate over
them, and those who are great
exercise authority over them.
But it will not be so among
you; but whoever wants to be
great among you, let him be your
servant.
And whoever wants to be
first among you, let him be your
servant,
just as the Son of Man did not
come to be served, but to serve, and
to give His life a ransom for many.”
Now as they departed from
Jericho, a large crowd followed
Him.
And, behold, two blind men sitting
by the road, when they heard
that Jesus was passing by, shouted
out, saying, “Have mercy on us, O
Lord, You Son of David!”
And the crowd rebuked them,
that they should keep silent; but
they shouted all the more, saying,
“Have mercy on us, O Lord, You
Son of David!”
Then Jesus stood still and
called them, and said, “What do
you want me to do for you?”
They said to Him, “Lord, that
our eyes may be opened.”
So Jesus had compassion on
them, and touched their eyes. And
immediately their eyes received
sight, and they followed Him.
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Now when they drew near
to Jerusalem, and came to
Bethphage, at the mount of Olives,
then Jesus sent out two disciples,
saying to them, “Go into the village
opposite you, and immediately
you will find a donkey tied,
and a colt with her. Loose them,
and bring them to Me.
And if anyone says anything to
you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has
need of them,’ and he will immediately
send them.”
All this was done that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken
through the prophet, saying:
“Tell the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your King is coming to
you, humble, and sitting on a donkey,
a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
Then the disciples went, and did
as Jesus commanded them,
and brought the donkey and the
colt, put their clothes on them,
and they set Him on them.
And a very large crowd spread
their clothes on the road; others
cut down branches from the trees
and spread them on the road.
And the crowds who went before
and those who followed shouted
out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son
of David! Blessed is He who comes
in the name of the LORD! Hosanna
in the highest!”
And when He came into
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Jerusalem, the entire city was
moved saying, “Who is this?”
Then the crowd said, “This is
Jesus the prophet from Nazareth
of Galilee.”
And Jesus went into the temple
of God, and drove out all those
who bought and sold in the temple,
and turned over the tables of
the moneychangers, and the seats
of those who sold doves,
and said to them, “It is written,
‘My house shall be called the
house of prayer,’ but you have
made it a ‘den of thieves.’”
Then the blind and the lame
came to Him in the temple, and
He healed them.
But when the chief priests
and scribes saw the wonderful
things that He did, and the children
shouting in the temple, and
saying, “Hosanna to the Son of
David!” they were very annoyed
and said to Him, “Do You hear
what they are saying?” And Jesus
said to them, “Yes. Have you
never read, ‘Out of the mouth of
babes and nursing infants You
have perfected praise’?”
Then He left them, and went
out of the city to Bethany; and He
stayed there.
Now in the morning as He
returned to the city, He was hungry.
And when He saw a fig tree beside
the road, He came to it, and found
nothing on it but only leaves, and
said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you
ever again.” And immediately the
fig tree withered away.
So when the disciples saw it,
they marveled, saying, “How
did the fig tree wither away so
suddenly!”
Jesus answered and said to them,
“Truly, I say to you, If you have
faith and do not doubt, you will
not only do what was done to the
fig tree, but also if you will say to
this mountain, ‘Be removed, and
be cast into the sea’ it will be done.
And anything, whatever things
you ask in prayer, believing, you
will receive.”
Now when He came to the
temple, the chief priests and the
elders of the people confronted
Him as He was teaching, and said,
“By what authority are You doing
these things? And who gave You
this authority?”
But Jesus answered and said
to them, “I will also ask you one
thing, which if you tell me, I likewise
will tell you by what authority
I do these things.
The baptism of John, where
was it from? From heaven, or
from men?” And they reasoned
among themselves, saying, “If we
shall say, ‘From heaven,’ He will
say to us, ‘Why then did you not
believe him?’
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But if we shall say, ‘From men,’
we fear the crowds, because everyone
counts John as a prophet.”
So they answered Jesus, and said,
“We do not know.” And He said to
them, “Neither will I tell you by
what authority I do these things.
“But what do you think? A certain
man had two sons, and he
came to the first and said, ‘Son,
go, work today in my vineyard.’
He replied and said, ‘I will
not,’ but afterward he repented,
and went.
Then he came to the second and
said likewise. And he replied and
said, ‘I will go, sir,’ but he did not go.
Which of those two did the will
of his father?” They said to Him,
“The first.” Jesus said to them,
“Truly, I say to you, that tax collectors
and prostitutes enter the
kingdom of God before you.
Because, John came to you in
the way of righteousness, and you
did not believe him; but tax collectors
and prostitutes believed
him; and you, when you saw it,
did not afterward repent that you
might believe him.
“Hear another parable: There
was a certain householder who
planted a vineyard and made a
hedge around it, dug a winepress
in it and built a tower. And leased
it out to farmers, and went into a
country far away.
Now when the time of harvest
drew near, he sent his servants
to the farmers, that they might
receive its fruit.
But the farmers took his servants,
beat one, killed one, and
stoned another.
Again, he sent other servants
more than the first, and they did
the same to them.
Then last of all he sent his
son to them, saying, ‘They will
respect my son.’
But when the farmers saw the
son, they said among themselves,
‘This is the heir. Come, let us
kill him, and let us seize on his
inheritance.’
So they took him, and threw
him out of the vineyard, and
killed him.
Therefore when the owner of
the vineyard comes, what shall
he do to those farmers?
They said to Him, “He will
viciously destroy those wicked
men, and will lease out his vineyard
to other farmers who will
present to him the fruits in their
seasons.”
Jesus said to them, “Have you
never read in the Scriptures: ‘The
stone which the builders rejected
has become the chief cornerstone.
This was the LORD’S doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
“Therefore I say to you, the
kingdom of God will be taken
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from you and given to a nation
bearing the fruits of it.
And whoever falls on this stone
will be broken; but on whomever
it falls, it will grind him to
powder.”
Now when the chief priests and
Pharisees had heard His parables,
they perceived that He spoke
about them.
But when they sought to lay
hands on Him, they feared the
crowds, because, they counted
Him as a prophet.
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And Jesus responded and spoke
to them again by parables and said:
“The kingdom of heaven is like a
certain king who arranged a marriage
for his son,
and sent out his servants to call
those who were invited to the wedding;
and they would not come.
Again, he sent out other servants,
saying, ‘Tell those who are
invited, “Behold, I have prepared
my dinner; my oxen and my fatted
cattle are slaughtered, and
all things are ready. Come to the
marriage.”’
But they made light of it, and
went their ways, one to his farm,
another to his business.
And the rest took his servants,
treated them spitefully, and
killed them.
But when the king heard about it,
he was very angry. And he sent out
his armies, destroyed those murderers,
and burned up their city.
Then he said to his servants, ‘The
wedding is ready, but those who
were invited were not worthy.
Therefore go into the highways,
and as many as you can find,
invite to the marriage.’
So those servants went out
into the highways, and gathered
together everyone they could
find, both bad and good. And the
wedding was filled with guests.
“But when the king came in
to see the guests, he saw a man
there who did not have a wedding
garment on.
And he said to him, ‘Friend,
how did you come in here without
a wedding garment?’ And he was
speechless.
Then the king said to the servants,
‘Bind him hand and foot,
take him away, and throw him
into outer darkness; there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
“Because, many are called, but
few are chosen.”
Then the Pharisees went, and
plotted how they might entangle
Him in His speech.
And they sent out to Him their
disciples with the Herodians,
saying, “Teacher, we know that
You are true, and teach the
way of God in truth; nor do You
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gratify anyone, because You do
not regard the person of men.
Tell us, therefore, what do You
think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to
Caesar, or not?”
But Jesus perceived their wickedness,
and said, “Why do you
test Me, you hypocrites?
Show Me the tax money.” So
they gave a denarius to Him.
And He said to them, “Whose
image and inscription is this?”
They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”
Then He said to them, “Therefore
render to Caesar the things that
are Caesar’s, and to God the
things that are God’s.”
When they had heard these
words, they marveled, and left
Him and went their way.
The same day the Sadducees
who say that there is no resurrection,
came to Him and asked Him,
saying: “Teacher, Moses said,
that if a man dies, having no children,
his brother shall marry his
wife, and raise up offspring for
his brother.
Now there were with us seven
brothers. So the first died after he
had married a wife, and having
no offspring, left his wife to his
brother.
Likewise the second also, and
the third, until the seventh.
Then last of all the woman
died also.
Therefore in the resurrection,
whose wife of the seven shall she
be, because they all had her?”
Jesus answered and said to
them, “You are mistaken, not
knowing the Scriptures, nor the
power of God.
Because, in the resurrection
they neither marry nor are given
in marriage, but are as the angels
of God in heaven.
But concerning the resurrection
of the dead, have you not
read what was spoken to you by
God, saying,
‘I am the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob’? God is not the God of the
dead, but of the living.”
And when the crowds heard
this, they were astonished at His
doctrine.
But when the Pharisees
heard that He had silenced the
Sadducees, they were gathered
together.
Then one of them, who was a
lawyer, asked Him a question, testing
Him, and saying,
“Teacher, which is the greatest
commandment in the law?”
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall
love the LORD your God with all
your heart, with all your soul,
and with all your mind.’
This is the first and great
commandment.
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And the second is like it, ‘You
shall love your neighbor as
yourself.’
On these two commandments
hang all the Law and the
Prophets.”
While the Pharisees were gathered
together, Jesus asked them,
saying, “What do you think of
Christ? Whose Son is He?” They
said to Him, “The Son of David.”
He said to them, “How then
does David in the Spirit call Him
‘Lord,’ saying:
“The LORD said to my Lord, ‘sit
at My right hand, until I make
Your enemies Your footstool?’”
If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’
how is He his Son?”
And no one was able to answer
Him a word, nor did anyone ask
Him any more questions from
that day on.
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Then Jesus spoke to the crowd
and to His disciples,
saying: “The scribes and the
Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
Everything then, whatever they
tell you to observe, that observe
and do, but do not do according to
their works; because they preach,
and do not practice.
Because, they bind heavy burdens,
hard to carry, and lay them
on men’s shoulders; but they
themselves will not move them
with one of their fingers.
But they do their works to be
seen by men. They make their
phylacteries broad and enlarge
the edges of their garments.
They love the best places at
feasts, the first seats in the
synagogues,
greetings in the markets, and to
be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’
But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’;
because, One is your Teacher,
that is, Christ, and you are all
brethren.
And do not call anyone on earth
your father; because One is your
Father, who is in heaven.
Nor be called teachers; because
One is your Teacher, that is, Christ.
But he who is greatest among
you shall be your servant.
And whoever exalts himself
will be humbled, and he who
humbles himself will be exalted.
“But woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! Because,
you shut up the kingdom of
heaven against men; because you
neither go in yourselves, nor do
you permit those who are entering
to go in.
Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! Because,
you devour widows’ houses, and
for a show make long prayers.
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Therefore you will receive the
greater damnation.
Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! Because,
you travel land and sea to make
one proselyte, and when he is
converted, you make him twice
as much the child of hell as
yourselves.
“Woe to you, you blind guides,
who say, ‘Whoever swears by the
temple, it is nothing; but whoever
swears by the gold of the temple,
he is obligated!’
You fools and blind! Because
which is greater, the gold or the
temple that sanctifies the gold?
And, ‘Whoever swears by the
altar, it is nothing; but whoever
swears by the gift that is on it, he
is obligated.’
You fools and blind! Because
which is greater, the gift or the
altar that sanctifies the gift?
Therefore whoever swears by
the altar, swears by it and by all
things on it.
And whoever swears by the
temple, swears by it, and by Him
who dwells in it.
And he who swears by heaven,
swears by the throne of God and
by Him who sits upon it.
Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! Because,
you pay tithe of mint and anise
and cummin, and have omitted
the weightier matters of the law:
justice, mercy, and faith. You
should have done these, without
leaving the others undone.
You blind guides, who strain at
a gnat, and swallow a camel!
“Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! Because,
you clean the outside of the cup
and dish, but inside they are full
of extortion and excess.
You blind Pharisee, first cleanse
that which is inside of the cup and
dish, that the outside of them
may be clean also.
“Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! Because,
you are like whitewashed tombs
which indeed appear beautiful
outwardly, but inside are
full of dead men’s bones and all
uncleanness.
Even so you also outwardly
appear righteous to men, but
inside you are full of hypocrisy
and iniquity.
“Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! Because,
you build the tombs of the prophets
and decorate the tombs of the
righteous,
and say, ‘If we had been in the
days of our fathers, we would not
have been partakers with them in
the blood of the prophets.’
“Therefore you are witnesses
against yourselves that you are
the children of those who killed
the prophets.
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Fill up then the measure of
your fathers.
You serpents, you generation of
vipers, how can you escape the
damnation of hell?
Therefore, behold, I send to you
prophets, wise men, and scribes:
and some of them you will kill and
crucify, and some of them you will
scourge in your synagogues, and
persecute them from city to city,
that upon you may come all the
righteous blood shed on the earth,
from the blood of righteous Abel
to the blood of Zechariah son of
Berechiah, whom you murdered
between the temple and the altar.
Truly, I say to you, all these
things will come upon this
generation.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you
who kills the prophets, and stone
those who are sent to you! How
often I wanted to gather your
children together, just as a hen
gathers her chicks under her
wings, but you were not willing!
Behold! Your house is left to
you desolate;
because, I say to you, You will
see me no more until you shall
say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in
the name of the LORD.’”
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Then Jesus went out and
departed from the temple, and
His disciples came to Him to show
Him the buildings of the temple.
And Jesus said to them: “Do you
not see all these things? Truly, I
say to you, there will not be left
here one stone upon another that
will not be thrown down.”
Now as He sat on the Mount of
Olives, the disciples came to Him
privately, saying, “Tell us, when
shall these things happen? And
what shall be the sign of Your coming,
and of the end of the age?”
And Jesus answered and said
to them, “Beware that no one
deceives you.
Because, many will come in My
name, saying, ‘I am Christ,’ and
will deceive many.
And you will hear of wars and
rumors of wars. See that you are
not troubled; because, all these
things must come to pass, but the
end is not yet.
Because, nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against
kingdom. And there will be famines,
pestilences, and earthquakes
in various places.
All these are the beginning of
sorrows.
Then they will deliver you up to
be afflicted, and will kill you, and
you will be hated by all nations
for My name’s sake.
And then many will be offended,
will betray one another, and will
hate one another.
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Then many false prophets will
rise up and will deceive many.
And because iniquity will
abound, the love of many will
go cold.
But he who endures to the end,
they will be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom
will be preached in all the world
as a witness to all nations, and
then the end will come.
“Therefore when you see the
‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken
of by Daniel the prophet,
standing in the holy place,” (whoever
reads, let him understand),
“then let those who are in Judea
flee to the mountains.
Let him who is on the housetop
not go down to take anything out
of his house,
nor let him who is in the field
return back to take his clothes.
But woe to those who are pregnant
and to those who are nursing
babes in those days!
And pray that your flight may
not be in the winter nor on the
Sabbath day.
Because, then there will be
great tribulation, such as has not
been since the beginning of the
world until this time, no, nor ever
will be.
And unless those days were
shortened, no flesh would be
saved; but for the sake of the elect
those days will be shortened.
“Then if anyone says to you,
‘Look, here is Christ,’ or ‘There!’
Do not believe it.
Because, false christs and false
prophets will arise and will show
great signs and wonders; so much
so that, if it were possible, they
would deceive even the elect.
Behold, I have told you in
advance.
“Therefore if they say to you,
‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not
go out; or ‘Look, He is in the secret
chambers!’ Do not believe it.
Because, as the lightning comes
out of the east and flashes to the
west, so also will the coming of
the Son of Man be.
Because, wherever the corpse
is, there the eagles will be gathered
together.
Immediately after the tribulation
of those days the sun will be
darkened, and the moon will not
give her light; the stars will fall
from heaven, and the powers of
the heavens will be shaken.
And then the sign of the Son of
Man will appear in heaven, and
then all the tribes of the earth will
mourn, and they will see the Son
of Man coming in the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory.
And He will send His angels
with a large sound of a trumpet,
and they will gather together His
elect from the four winds, from
one end of heaven to the other.
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“Now learn this parable from
the fig tree: When its branch is
still tender and grows out leaves,
you know that summer is near.
So you likewise, when you see
all these things, know that it is
near, even at the doors!
Truly, I say to you, this generation
will not pass away, until all
these things are fulfilled.
Heaven and earth will pass away,
but My words will not pass away.
But of that day and hour no
one knows, no, not the angels of
heaven, but My Father only.
But as the days of Noah were,
so also will the coming of the Son
of Man be.
Because, as in the days that were
before the flood they were eating
and drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, until the day that
Noah entered into the ark,
and did not know until the
flood came and took them all
away, so also will the coming of
the Son of Man be.
Then two will be in the field:
the one will be taken and the
other left.
Two women will be grinding at
the mill: one will be taken and
the other left.
Therefore watch, because, you
do not know what hour your Lord
is coming.
But know this, that if the master
of the house had known what hour
the thief would come, he would
have watched and not allowed his
house to be broken into.
Therefore you likewise be ready,
because the Son of Man is coming
at an hour you do not expect.
“Who then is a faithful and
wise servant, whom his master
made ruler over his household,
to provide them with food in the
appropriate season?
Blessed is that servant, whom
his master, when he comes, will
find doing that.
Truly, I say to you, that he will
make him ruler over all his goods.
But if that evil servant says in
his heart, ‘My master is delaying
his coming,’
and begins to beat his fellow
servants, and to eat and drink
with the drunkards,
the master of that servant will
come on a day when he is not
looking for him and at an hour
that he is not aware of,
and will cut him in two, and
appoint him his portion with the
hypocrites. There will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.
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“Then the kingdom of heaven
will be likened to ten virgins who
took their lamps and went out to
meet the bridegroom.
Now five of them were wise, and
five were foolish.
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Those who were foolish took their
lamps and took no oil with them,
but the wise took oil in their
vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom was
delayed, they all slumbered
and slept.
“And at midnight a shout was
made, ‘Behold, the bridegroom is
coming; go out to meet him!’
Then all those virgins arose,
and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said to the wise,
‘Give us some of your oil, because,
our lamps have gone out.’
But the wise replied, saying, ‘No,
lest there shall not be enough for
us and you; but rather go to those
who sell, and buy for yourselves.’
And while they went to buy, the
bridegroom came, and those who
were ready went in with him to the
wedding; and the door was shut.
“Afterward the other virgins
came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord,
open to us!’
But he replied and said, ‘Truly, I
say to you, I do not know you.’
“Watch therefore, because, you
know neither the day nor the hour
in which the Son of Man is coming.
“Because, the kingdom of heaven
is like a man travelling into a far
country, who called his own servants
and distributed his goods
to them.
And to one he gave five talents,
to another two, and to another
one, to each according to his own
ability; and immediately he went
on a journey.
Then he who had received the
five talents went and traded with
them, and made those into another
five talents.
And likewise he who had received
two, he gained two more also.
But he who had received one
went and dug in the earth, and
hid his lord’s money.
After a long time the lord of
those servants came and settled
accounts with them.
“And so he who had received
five talents came and brought
another five talents, saying,
‘Lord, you distributed to me five
talents; look, I have gained five
more talents besides them.
His lord said to him, ‘Well done,
you good and faithful servant;
you have been faithful over a few
things, I will make you ruler over
many things. Enter into the joy of
your lord.’
He also who had received two
talents came and said, ‘Lord, you
distributed to me two talents;
look, I have gained two more talents
besides them.’
His lord said to him, ‘Well done,
good and faithful servant; you
have been faithful over a few
things, I will make you ruler over
many things. Enter into the joy of
your lord.’
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“Then he who had received the
one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I
knew you to be a hard man, reaping
where you have not sown, and
gathering where you have not
scattered seed.
And I was afraid, and went and
hid your talent in the ground.
Look, there you have what is yours.’
“His lord replied and said to
him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant,
you knew that I reap where I
have not sown, and gather where
I have not scattered seed.
Therefore you should have
deposited my money with the
bankers, and then at my coming I
would have received back my own
with interest.
Therefore take the talent from
him, and give it to him who has
ten talents.
‘Because, to everyone who has,
more will be given, and he will
have abundance; but from him
who does not have, even what he
has will be taken away.
And cast the unprofitable servant
into outer darkness. There
will be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.’
“When the Son of Man comes in
His glory, and all the holy angels
with Him, then He will sit upon
the throne of His glory.
And all the nations will be
gathered before Him, and He will
separate them one from another,
like a shepherd divides his sheep
from the goats.
And He will set the sheep on
His right hand, but the goats on
the left.
Then the King will say to those
on His right hand, ‘Come, you
blessed of My Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world:
because, I was hungry and
you gave Me food; I was thirsty
and you gave Me a drink; I was a
stranger and you took Me in;
naked, and you clothed Me; I
was sick, and you visited Me; I was
in prison, and you came to Me.’
“Then the righteous will reply
to Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did
we see You hungry and feed You,
or thirsty and gave You a drink?’
When did we see You a foreigner
and take You in, or naked
and clothe You?
Or when did we see You sick, or
in prison, and come to You?’
And the King will answer and
say to them, ‘Truly, I say to you,
inasmuch as you did it to one of
the least of these My brethren,
you did it to Me.’
“Then He will also say to those
on the left hand, ‘Depart from
Me, you cursed, into everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil and
his angels:
because, I was hungry and you
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did not give Me food; I was thirsty
and you did not give Me a drink;
I was a foreigner and you did
not take Me in, naked, and you
did not clothe Me, sick, and in
prison, and you did not visit Me.’
“Then they also will reply to
Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we
see You hungry or thirsty or a foreigner
or naked or sick or in prison
and did not minister to You?’
Then He will answer them,
saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, inasmuch
as you did not do it to one
of the least of these, you did not
do it to Me.’
And these will depart into
everlasting punishment, but the
righteous into life eternal.”
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Now it came to pass, when Jesus
had finished all these sayings, He
said to His disciples,
“You know that after two days
is the Feast of the Passover, and the
Son of Man will be betrayed to be
crucified.”
Then the chief priests, the
scribes, and the elders of the people
assembled together to the palace
of the high priest, who was
called Caiaphas,
and plotted how they might seize
Jesus by deception and kill Him.
But they said, “Not on the feast
day, lest there be an uproar among
the people.”
Now when Jesus was in Bethany,
in the house of Simon the leper,
a woman came to Him having an
alabaster flask of very precious
ointment, and poured it on His
head as He was sitting at the table.
But when His disciples saw it,
they were indignant, saying, “For
what purpose is this waste?
As this ointment might have
been sold for much and given to
the poor.”
When Jesus knew this, He said
to them, “Why do you trouble the
woman? Since she has performed
a good work towards Me.”
Because, you have the poor
with you always, but Me you do
not have always.
Because, in pouring this ointment
on My body, she did it for
My burial.
Truly, I say to you, wherever
this gospel is preached in the
entire world, there also will this,
what this woman has done, be
told as a memorial to her.”
Then one of the twelve
called Judas Iscariot, went to
the chief priests
and said to them, “What will you
give me, and I will deliver Him to
you?” And they covenanted with
him for thirty pieces of silver.
So from that time he sought
opportunity to betray Him.
Now on the first day of the Feast
of Unleavened Bread the disciples
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came to Jesus, saying to Him,
“Where do You want us to prepare
for You to eat the Passover?”
And He said, “Go into the city
to a certain man, and say to him,
‘The Teacher says, “My time is at
hand; I will keep the Passover at
your house with My disciples.”’”
So the disciples did as Jesus had
directed them; and they made
preparations for the Passover.
Now when the evening had
come, He sat down with the twelve.
And as they were eating, He
said, “Truly I say to you, that one
of you will betray me.”
And they were exceedingly sorrowful,
and each of them began to
say to Him, “Lord, am I the one?”
And He answered and said, “He
who dips his hand with Me in the
dish, he will betray Me.
The Son of Man goes just as it
is written of Him, but woe to that
man by whom the Son of Man
is betrayed! It would have been
good for that man if he had not
been born.”
Then Judas, who betrayed Him,
replied and said, “Rabbi, am I the
one?” He said to him, “You have
said it.”
And as they were eating, Jesus
took bread, blessed it, and broke
it, and gave it to the disciples and
said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”
Then He took the cup, and gave
thanks, and gave it to them, saying,
“Drink from it all of you.
Because, this is My blood of the
new testament, which is shed for
many for the remission of sins.
But I say to you, I will not drink
of this fruit of the vine from now
on until that day when I drink
it new with you in My Father’s
kingdom.”
And when they had sung a
song, they went out to the Mount
of Olives.
Then Jesus said to them, “All
of you will be made to stumble
because of Me this night, because,
it is written: ‘I will strike the
Shepherd, and the sheep of the
flock will be scattered.’
But after I am raised up again, I
will go before you to Galilee.”
Peter replied and said to Him,
“Even if all men are made to stumble
because of You, yet I will never
be made to stumble.”
Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say
to you, that this night, before the
rooster crows, you will deny Me
three times.”
Peter said to Him, “Even if I
have to die with You, yet I will not
deny You!” And all the disciples
said likewise.
Then Jesus came with them to
a place called Gethsemane, and
said to the disciples, “Sit here,
while I go and pray over there.”
And He took Peter and the two
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sons of Zebedee with Him, and
began to be sorrowful and deeply
troubled.
Then He said to them, “My
soul is exceedingly sorrowful,
even to death. Stay here and
watch with Me.”
And He went a little further, fell
on His face, and prayed, saying,
“O My Father, if it is possible, let
this cup pass from Me; nevertheless
not as I will, but as You will.”
Then He came to the disciples
and found them sleeping, and
said to Peter, “What! Could you
not watch with Me one hour?
Watch and pray, that you do
not enter into temptation. The
spirit indeed is willing, but the
flesh is weak.”
He went away again the second
time and prayed, saying, “O
My Father, if this cup cannot pass
away from Me unless I drink it,
Your will be done.”
And He came and found them
asleep again, because their eyes
were heavy.
So He left them, went away
again, and prayed the third time,
saying the same words.
Then He came to His disciples,
and said to them, “Sleep on now
and take your rest. Behold, the
hour is at hand, and the Son of
Man is being betrayed into the
hands of sinners.
Rise, let us be going. See, My
betrayer is at hand.”
And while He was still speaking,
behold, Judas, one of the
twelve, and with him a large
crowd with swords and clubs,
came from the chief priests and
elders of the people.
Now His betrayer had given
them a sign, saying, “Whomever
I kiss, He is the One; seize Him.”
And immediately he went up to
Jesus, and said, “Greetings Rabbi!”
and kissed Him.
But Jesus said to him, “Friend,
why have you come?” Then they
came and laid hands on Jesus and
took Him.
And suddenly, one of those who
were with Jesus stretched out his
hand and drew his sword, and
struck a servant of the high priest
and cut off his ear.
Then Jesus said to him, “Put
your sword in its place, because
all those who take the sword will
die by the sword.
Or do you think that I cannot
now pray to My Father, and He
will provide Me with more than
twelve legions of angels?
But how then shall the
Scriptures be fulfilled, that it
must happen this way?”
In that same hour Jesus said to
the crowds, “Have you come out
as against a thief with swords and
clubs to take Me? I sat with you
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daily, teaching in the temple, and
you did not seize Me.
But all this was done that the
Scriptures of the prophets might
be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples
forsook Him, and fled.
And those who had laid hold
of Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas
the high priest, where the scribes
and the elders were assembled.
But Peter followed Him at a distance
to the high priest’s courtyard
and went in and sat with the
servants to see the end.
Now the chief priests, elders,
and all the council sought false
testimony against Jesus, to put
Him to death,
but found none. Yes,
although many false witnesses
came forward, yet they found
none. But at last two false witnesses
came forward
and said, “This Man said, ‘I am
able to destroy the temple of God
and to build it in three days.’”
And the high priest arose and
said to Him, “Do You answer
nothing? What is it that these witness
against You?”
But Jesus kept silent. And the
high priest responded and said to
Him, “I adjure You by the living
God, that You tell us if You are the
Christ, the Son of God!”
Jesus said to Him, “You have
said it, nevertheless I say to you
all, after this you will see the Son
of Man sitting at the right hand of
Power, and coming in the clouds
of heaven.”
Then the high priest tore his
clothes, saying, “He has spoken
blasphemy! What further need do
we have of witnesses? Look, now
you have heard His blasphemy!
What do you think?” They
answered and said, “He is worthy
of death.”
Then they spat in His face and
beat Him; and others struck Him
with the palms of their hands,
saying, “Prophesy to us, You
Christ! Who is the one who
struck You?”
Now Peter sat outside in the
courtyard. And a servant girl
came to him, saying, You were
also with Jesus of Galilee.
But he denied it before them all,
saying, “I do not know what you
are saying.”
And when he had gone out to
the gateway, another girl saw him,
and said to those who were there,
“This man was also with Jesus of
Nazareth.”
But again he denied with an
oath, “I do not know the Man.”
And after a while those who
stood by came up to him and said
to Peter, “Surely you also are one
of them, because your speech
exposes you.”
Then he began to curse and
to swear, saying, “I do not know
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the Man!” And immediately the
rooster crowed.
And Peter remembered the
word of Jesus, who said to him,
“Before the rooster crows, you
will deny Me three times.” So he
went out and wept bitterly.
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When the morning came, all
the chief priests and elders of the
people took counsel against Jesus
to put Him to death.
And when they had bound Him,
they led Him away and delivered
Him to Pontius Pilate the
governor.
Then Judas, who had betrayed
Him, observing that He was condemned,
was remorseful and
returned the thirty pieces of silver
to the chief priests and the elders,
saying, “I have sinned by
betraying the innocent blood.”
And they said, “What is that to
us? You see to it!”
Then he threw down the
pieces of silver in the temple and
departed, and went and hung
himself.
And the chief priests took the
silver pieces and said, “It is not
lawful to put them into the treasury,
because it is the payment
for blood.”
And they took counsel and
bought with them the potter’s
field, to bury strangers in.
Therefore that field has been
called, the Field of Blood, to
this day.
Then was fulfilled what was
spoken through Jeremiah the
prophet, saying, “And they took
the thirty pieces of silver, the
value of Him that was priced,
whom they of the children of
Israel priced,
and gave them for the potter’s
field, as the LORD directed me.”
Now Jesus stood before the governor.
And the governor asked
Him, saying, “Are You the King of
the Jews?” And Jesus said to him,
“It is as you say.”
And while He was being accused
by the chief priests and elders, He
did not reply.
Then Pilate said to Him, “Do
You not hear how many things
they testify against You?”
But He answered him not one
word, so that the governor marveled
greatly.
Now at that feast the governor
was accustomed to release to the
people a prisoner, whoever they
desired.
And at that time they had
an infamous prisoner called
Barabbas.
Therefore, when they had gathered
together, Pilate said to them,
“Whom do you want me to release
to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is
called Christ?”
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Because, he knew that they had
handed Him over because of envy.
While he was sitting on the
judgment seat, his wife sent to
him, saying, “Have nothing to
do with that just Man, because, I
have suffered many things today
in a dream because of Him.”
But the chief priests and elders
persuaded the crowds that they
should ask for Barabbas and
destroy Jesus.
The governor responded and
said to them, “Which of the two
do you want me to release to
you?” They said, “Barabbas!”
Pilate said to them, “What
shall I do with Jesus who is called
Christ?” They all said to him, “Let
Him be crucified!”
And the governor said, “Why,
what evil has He done?” But they
shouted out all the more, saying,
“Let Him be crucified!”
When Pilate saw that he could
not prevail at all, but rather that
an uproar occurred, he took
water, and washed his hands
before the crowd, saying, “I am
innocent of the blood of this just
Person. You see to it.”
Then all the people replied and
said, “His blood be upon us, and
upon our children.”
Then he released Barabbas to
them; and when he had scourged
Jesus, he delivered Him to be
crucified.
Then the soldiers of the governor
took Jesus into the common
hall and gathered the entire garrison
of soldiers around Him.
And they stripped Him and put
a scarlet robe on Him.
And when they had platted a
crown of thorns, they put it on
His head, and a reed in His right
hand. And they bowed the knee
before Him and mocked Him, saying,
“Hail, King of the Jews!”
Then they spat on Him, and
took the reed and struck Him on
the head.
And after they had mocked
Him, they took the robe off Him,
put His own clothes on Him, and
led Him away to crucify Him.
Now as they came out, they
found a man of Cyrene, Simon
by name. They compelled him to
carry His cross.
And when they came to a place
called Golgotha, that is to say,
Place of a Skull,
they gave Him vinegar to drink
mixed with gall. But when He had
tasted of it, He would not drink.
Then they crucified Him, and
divided His clothes, casting lots,
that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through the prophet:
“They divided My garments
among them, and for My clothing
they cast lots.”
And sitting down, they kept
watch over Him there.
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And they put over His head the
charge written against Him: THIS
IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Then two thieves were crucified
with Him, one on the right,
and another on the left.
And those who passed by
reviled Him, shaking their heads
and saying, “You who destroy
the temple, and build it in three
days, save Yourself! If You are
the Son of God, come down from
the cross.”
Likewise the chief priests also,
mocking Him with the scribes and
elders, said,
“He saved others; He cannot
save Himself! If He is the King of
Israel, let Him now come down
from the cross, and we will
believe Him.
He trusted in God; let Him
deliver Him now, if He will have
Him; since He said, ‘I am the Son
of God.’”
The thieves also, who were crucified
with Him, reviled Him with
the same thing.
Now from the sixth hour until
the ninth hour there was darkness
over all the land.
And about the ninth hour Jesus
shouted out with a loud voice, saying,
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”
that is to say, “My God, My God,
why have You forsaken Me?”
Some of those who stood there
when they heard that, said, “This
Man is calling for Elijah.”
And immediately one of them
ran and took a sponge, filled it
with vinegar, they put it on a reed,
and offered it to Him to drink.
The rest said, “Leave Him
alone; let us see whether Elijah
will come to save Him.”
Jesus shouted out again with a
loud voice and gave up His spirit.
Then, behold, the veil of the
temple was torn in two from top
to the bottom; and the earth
quaked, and the rocks split open,
and the graves were opened;
and many bodies of the saints
who were asleep were raised up,
and came out of the graves
after His resurrection, and went
into the holy city, and appeared
to many.
So when the centurion and
those with Him, who were guarding
Jesus, saw the earthquake and
the things that occurred, they
feared greatly, saying, “Truly this
was the Son of God.”
And many women who followed
Jesus from Galilee ministering
to Him, were there
watching from afar,
among whom were Mary
Magdalene, and Mary the mother
of James and Joses, and the
mother of Zebedee’s children.
Now when the evening had
come, there came a rich man from
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Arimathaea, named Joseph, who
himself was also Jesus’ disciple.
He went to Pilate and asked
for the body of Jesus. Then
Pilate commanded the body to
be given.
And when Joseph had taken
the body, he wrapped it in a clean
linen cloth,
and laid it in his own new
tomb which he had cut out in the
rock; and he rolled a large stone
against the door of the tomb, and
departed.
And Mary Magdalene was
there, and the other Mary, sitting
opposite the tomb.
On the next day, which followed
the Day of the Preparation,
the chief priests and Pharisees
gathered together to Pilate,
saying, “Sir, we remember,
while He was still alive, how that
deceiver said, ‘After three days I
will rise again.’
Therefore command that the
tomb be made secure until the
third day, lest His disciples come
by night and steal Him away, and
say to the people, ‘He is risen
from the dead.’ So the last deception
will be worse than the first.”
Pilate said to them, “You have
a guard; go your way, make it as
secure as you can.”
So they went and made the
tomb secure, sealing the stone
and setting the guard.
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At the end of the Sabbath, as
the first day of the week began to
dawn, Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary came to see the tomb.
And behold, there was a large
earthquake; because, the angel
of the Lord descended from
heaven and came and rolled
back the stone from the door,
and sat on it.
His countenance was like lightning,
and his clothing as white
as snow.
And the guards shook for fear of
him, and became like dead men.
But the angel responded and
said to the women, “Do not be
afraid, because I know that you
seek Jesus who was crucified.
He is not here; because He is
risen, as He said. Come, see the
place where the Lord lay.
And go quickly and tell His disciples
that He is risen from the dead,
and behold, He is going before you
into Galilee; there you will see
Him. Behold, I have told you.”
So they went out quickly from
the tomb with fear and great joy,
and ran to tell His disciples.
And as they went to tell His disciples,
behold, Jesus met them,
saying, “Greetings.” And they
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came and held Him by the feet
and worshiped Him.
Then Jesus said to them, “Do not
be afraid. Go and tell My brethren
to go to Galilee, and there they
will see Me.”
Now while they were going,
behold, some of the guard came
into the city, and reported to the
chief priests all the things that
had happened.
When they had assembled with
the elders and took counsel, they
gave a large amount of money to
the soldiers,
saying, “Tell them, ‘His disciples
came at night and stole Him
away while we slept.’
And if this comes to the governor’s
ears, we will persuade him
and protect you.”
So they took the money and
did as they were instructed; and
this saying is commonly reported
among the Jews until this day.
Then the eleven disciples
went away into Galilee, to a
mountain where Jesus had
appointed for them.
And when they saw Him,
they worshiped Him; but some
doubted.
And Jesus came and spoke to
them, saying, “All authority has
been given to Me in heaven and
on earth.
“Go therefore and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all
things that I have commanded
you; and behold, I am with you
always, even to the end of the
age.” Amen.
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
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The beginning of the gospel of
Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
As it is written in the prophets:
“Behold, I send My messenger
before Your face, who will prepare
Your way before You.”
“The voice of one shouting in
the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way
of the LORD; make His paths
straight.’”
John came baptizing in the
wilderness, and preaching the
baptism of repentance for the
remission of sins.
And all the land of Judea, and
those from Jerusalem, went out to
him and were all baptized by him
in the Jordan River, confessing
their sins.
Now John was clothed with camel’s
hair and a leather belt around
his waist, and he ate locusts and
wild honey.
And he preached, saying, “He
who comes after me is mightier
than me, whose sandal strap I
am not worthy to stoop down
and loose.
I indeed have baptized you with
water, but He will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit.”
And it came to pass in those days
that Jesus came from Nazareth of
Galilee, and was baptized by John
in the Jordan.
And immediately, coming
up from the water, He saw the
heavens opened, and the Spirit
descending upon Him like a dove.
And there came a voice from
heaven, saying, “You are My
beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased.”
And immediately the Spirit
drove Him into the wilderness.
And He was there in the wilderness
forty days, tempted by Satan,
and was with the wild beasts; and
the angels ministered to Him.
Now after John was put in
prison, Jesus came to Galilee,
preaching the gospel of the kingdom
of God,
and saying, “The time is fulfi
lled, and the kingdom of God is
at hand. Repent, and believe the
gospel.”
Now as He walked by the sea
of Galilee, He saw Simon and
Andrew his brother casting a net
into the sea; because they were
fi shermen.
And Jesus said to them, “Follow
after Me, and I will make you
become fi shers of men.”
And immediately they left their
nets and followed Him.
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And when He had gone a little
further from there, He saw James
the son of Zebedee, and John his
brother, who also were in the
boat mending their nets.
And immediately He called
them, and they left their father
Zebedee in the boat with the hired
servants, and went after Him.
Then they went into
Capernaum, and immediately on
the Sabbath day He entered into
the synagogue and taught.
And they were astonished at
His doctrine, because, He taught
them as one that had authority,
and not as the scribes.
Now there was a man in their
synagogue with an unclean spirit.
And he shouted out,
saying, “Leave us alone! What
have we to do with You, Jesus
of Nazareth? Have You come to
destroy us? I know who You are,
the Holy One of God!”
But Jesus rebuked him, saying,
“Be quiet, and come out of him!”
And when the unclean spirit had
convulsed him and shouted with a
loud voice, he came out of him.
Then they were all amazed,
so that they questioned among
themselves, saying, “What is
this? What new doctrine is this?
Because, with authority He commands
even the unclean spirits,
and they obey Him.”
And immediately His fame
spread throughout all the region
around Galilee.
Now as soon as they had come
out of the synagogue, they
entered into the house of Simon
and Andrew, with James and
John.
But Simon’s wife’s mother lay
sick with a fever, and they quickly
told Him about her.
So He came and took her by the
hand and lifted her up, and immediately
the fever left her. And she
ministered to them.
And at evening, when the sun
had set, they brought to Him all
who were sick and those who
were demon possessed.
And the entire city was gathered
together at the door.
And He healed many who were
sick with various diseases, and
cast out many demons; and He did
not permit the demons to speak,
because they knew Him.
Now in the morning, having
risen a long while before daylight,
He went out and departed to an
isolated place, and prayed there.
And Simon and those who were
with Him searched for Him.
And when they had found Him,
they said to Him, “Everyone is
looking for You.”
And He said to them, “Let us go
into the next towns, that I may
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preach there as well, because for
this purpose I have come forth.”
And He preached in their synagogues
throughout all Galilee,
and cast out demons.
Now a leper came to Him, begging
Him, kneeling down to Him
and saying to Him, “If You are
willing, You can make me clean.”
Then Jesus, moved with compassion,
stretched out His hand,
and touched him, and said to him,
“I am willing; be cleansed.”
And as soon as He had spoken,
immediately the leprosy left him,
and he was cleansed.
And He strictly warned him and
immediately sent him away,
and said to him, “See that you
say nothing to anyone; but go your
way, show yourself to the priest,
and off er for your cleansing those
things which Moses commanded,
as a testimony to them.”
However, he went out and
began to proclaim it freely, and
to spread the matter abroad, so
that Jesus could no longer openly
enter into the city, but was outside
in deserted places; and they
came to Him from every direction.
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And after a few days He entered
into Capernaum again, and it was
told that He was in the house.
And immediately many were
gathered together, so that there
was no room to receive them,
not even near the door. And He
preached the word to them.
Then they came to Him, bringing
a paralytic who was carried
by four men.
And when they could not come
near to Him because of the crowd,
they uncovered the roof where
He was. So when they had broken
through, they let down the bed
upon which the paralytic was lying.
When Jesus saw their faith, He
said to the paralytic, “Son, your
sins are forgiven you.”
However some of the scribes
were sitting there and reasoning
in their hearts,
“Why does this Man speak
blasphemies like this? Who can
forgive sins but God alone?”
But immediately, when Jesus
perceived in His spirit that they
reasoned like this within themselves,
He said to them, “Why
do you reason these things in
your hearts?
Which is easier, to say to the
paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven
you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your
bed and walk’?
But that you may know that the
Son of Man has authority on earth to
forgive sins,” He said to the paralytic,
“I say to you, arise, take up your
bed, and go to your house.”
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And immediately he arose, took
up the bed, and went out in front
of them all, so that they were all
amazed, and glorifi ed God, saying,
“We never saw anything like this!”
Then He went out again by the
sea; and all the crowds came to
Him, and He taught them.
And as He passed by, He saw
Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting
at the tax offi ce, and said to him,
“Follow Me.” And he arose and
followed Him.
Now it happened, as Jesus was
dining in Levi’s house, that many
tax collectors and sinners also sat
together with Jesus and His disciples;
because there were many,
and they followed Him.
And when the scribes and
Pharisees saw Him eating with
tax collectors and sinners, they
said to His disciples, “How come
He eats and drinks with tax collectors
and sinners?”
When Jesus heard it, He said to
them, “Those who are well have
no need of a physician, but those
who are sick. I did not come to
call the righteous, but sinners, to
repentance.”
And the disciples of John and
of the Pharisees used to fast. Then
they came and said to Him, “Why
do the disciples of John and of the
Pharisees fast, but Your disciples
do not fast?”
And Jesus said to them, “Can
the children of the bridechamber
fast while the bridegroom is
with them? As long as they have
the bridegroom with them they
cannot fast.
But the days will come, when
the bridegroom will be taken
away from them, and then they
will fast in those days.
And no one sews a piece of new
cloth on old clothing; or else the
new piece that took its place rips
away from the old, and the tear is
made worse.
And no one puts new grape
juice into old wineskins; or else
the new grape juice bursts the
wineskins, the grape juice is
spilled, and the wineskins are
ruined. But new grape juice must
be put into new wineskins.”
Now it happened that He went
through the grainfi elds on the
Sabbath day; and as they went His
disciples began to pluck the heads
of grain.
And the Pharisees said to Him,
“Look, why do they do what is not
lawful on the Sabbath day?”
But He said to them, “Have you
never read what David did when
he had need and was hungry, he
and those who were with him:
how he went into the house
of God in the days of Abiathar
the high priest, and ate the
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showbread, which is not lawful
to eat except for the priests, and
also gave some to those who were
with him?”
And He said to them, “The
Sabbath was made for man, and
not man for the Sabbath.
Therefore the Son of Man is
also Lord of the Sabbath.”
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And He entered into the synagogue
again, and a man was there
who had a withered hand.
So they watched Him, whether
He would heal him on the Sabbath
day, so that they might accuse Him.
And He said to the man who
had the withered hand, “Stand in
the midst.”
Then He said to them, “Is it
lawful on the Sabbath days to do
good or to do evil, to save life, or
to kill?” But they kept silent.
And when He had looked around
at them with anger, being grieved
because of the hardness of their
hearts, He said to the man,
“Stretch out your hand.” And he
stretched it out, and his hand was
restored as whole as the other.
Then the Pharisees went out
and immediately took counsel
with the Herodians against Him,
how they might destroy Him.
But Jesus withdrew Himself
with His disciples to the sea. And
a large crowd from Galilee and
from Judea followed Him,
also from Jerusalem and
Idumea and from beyond the
Jordan; and those from Tyre and
Sidon, when they heard about
the many things He was doing, a
large crowd came to Him.
So He told His disciples that a
small boat should be kept ready
for Him because of the crowd, lest
they should swarm Him,
because, He had healed many,
so that as many as had affl ictions
swarmed about Him to
touch Him.
And unclean spirits, whenever
they saw Him, fell down before
Him and shouted out, saying,
“You are the Son of God.”
But He warned them strictly that
they should not make Him known.
And He went up on a mountain
and called to Him those whom He
wanted. And they came to Him.
Then He ordained twelve, that
they might be with Him and that
He might send them out to preach,
and to have power to heal sicknesses
and to cast out demons:
And Simon He surnamed Peter;
James the son of Zebedee, and
John the brother of James, to
whom He surnamed Boanerges,
which is, “The Sons of Thunder”;
Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew,
Matthew, Thomas, James the
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son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, and
Simon the Cananite;
and Judas Iscariot, who also
betrayed Him. And they went into
a house.
And the crowd came together
again, so that they could not so
much as eat bread.
But when His friends heard
about this, they went out to lay
hold of Him, because they said,
“He is out of His mind.”
And the scribes who came
down from Jerusalem said, “He
has Beelzebub,” and “By the
ruler of the demons He casts out
demons.”
So He called them to Himself and
said to them in parables: “How
can Satan cast out Satan?
And if a kingdom is divided
against itself, that kingdom cannot
stand.
And if a house is divided against
itself, that house cannot stand.
And if Satan has risen up
against himself, and is divided,
he cannot stand, but has an end.
No one can enter into a strong
man’s house and plunder his
goods, unless he fi rst binds the
strong man. And then he shall
plunder his house.
“Truly, I say to you, all sins
will be forgiven the sons of men,
and whatever blasphemies they
may speak;
but he who blasphemes against the
Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but
is in danger of eternal damnation,”
because they said, “He has an
unclean spirit.”
Then His brethren and His
mother came, and standing outside
they sent to Him, calling Him.
And the crowd sat around Him;
and they said to Him, “Look, Your
mother and Your brethren are
outside seeking You.”
But He replied to them, saying,
“Who is My mother, or My
brethren?”
And He looked around at
those who sat about Him, and
said, “Behold My mother and My
brethren!
Because, whoever does the will
of God is My brother and My sister
and mother.”
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And again He began to teach by
the sea side. And a large crowd
was gathered to Him, so that He
got into a boat and sat in it on the
sea. Then the entire crowd was by
the sea on the land.
Then He taught them many
things by parables, and said to
them in His doctrine:
“Listen! Behold, a sower went
out to sow.
And it happened, as he sowed,
some fell by the wayside, and
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the birds of the air came and
devoured it.
And some fell on stony ground,
where it did not have much earth;
and immediately it sprang up
because it had no depth of earth.
But when the sun was up it was
scorched, and because it had no
root it withered away.
And some fell among thorns; and
the thorns grew up and choked it,
and it yielded no fruit.
But the other fell on good
ground, and yielded fruit that
sprang up, increased, and produced:
some thirtyfold, some
sixty, and some a hundred.”
And He said to them, “He who
has ears to hear, let him hear.”
But when He was alone, those
around Him with the twelve
asked Him about the parable.
And He said to them, “To you it
has been given to know the mystery
of the kingdom of God; but
to those who are outside, all these
things come in parables,
so that ‘Seeing they may see and
not perceive, and hearing they may
hear and not understand; lest they
should be converted at any time,
and their sins be forgiven them.’”
And He said to them, “Do you
not understand this parable? How
then shall you understand all the
parables?
The sower sows the word.
And these are those by the
wayside where the word is sown.
But when they have heard, Satan
comes immediately and takes
away the word that was sown in
their hearts.
And likewise these are those
which are sown on stony ground
who, when they have heard the
word, immediately receive it with
gladness;
but they have no root in themselves,
and so endure only for a
time. Afterward, when affl iction
or persecution arises for the word’s
sake, immediately they stumble.
Now these are the ones sown
among thorns; those who hear
the word,
but the cares of this world, the
deceitfulness of riches, and the
desires for other things entering
in choke the word, and it becomes
unfruitful.
But these are they which are
sown on good ground, those who
hear the word, receive it, and bear
fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty,
and some a hundred.”
And He said to them, “Is a lamp
brought to be put under a basket
or under a bed? Is it not to be set
on a lampstand?
Because, there is nothing hidden
which will not be revealed,
nor has anything been kept secret
but that it should come to light.
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If anyone has ears to hear, let
him hear.”
Then He said to them, “Take
heed what you hear. With the
same measure you use, it will be
measured to you; and to you who
hear, more will be given.
Because, whoever has, to
him more will be given; but
whoever does not have, even
what he has will be taken away
from him.”
And He said, “The kingdom of
God is like as if a man should scatter
seed on the ground,
and should sleep by night and
rise by day, and the seed should
sprout and grow, he himself does
not know how.
Because, the earth yields crops
from itself: fi rst the blade, then
the head, after that the full grain
in the head.
So when the grain ripens,
immediately he puts in the sickle,
because the harvest has come.”
Then He said, “To what shall
we liken the kingdom of God? Or
with what comparison shall we
compare it?
It is like a grain of mustard seed
which, when it is sown on the
ground, is smaller than all the
seeds that are in the earth;
but when it is sown, it grows
up and becomes greater than
all herbs, and shoots out large
branches, so that the birds of the
air may nest under its shade.”
And with many such parables
He spoke the word to them as
they were able to hear it.
But He did not speak to them
without a parable. And when they
were alone, He expounded all
things to His disciples.
And the same day, when
evening had come, He said to
them, “Let us cross over to the
other side.”
Now when they had sent the
crowd away, they took Him in the
boat just as He was. And there were
also with Him other little boats.
And a large windstorm arose,
and the waves beat into the boat,
so that it was already full.
But He was in the back of the
boat, asleep on a pillow. And
they awoke Him and said to Him,
“Teacher, do You not care that we
are perishing?”
Then He arose and rebuked the
wind, and said to the sea, “Peace,
be still!” And the wind ceased and
there was a great calm.
But He said to them, “Why are
you so fearful? How is it that you
have no faith?”
And they feared exceedingly,
and said to one another, “What
type of man is this, that even the
wind and the sea obey Him!”
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Then they came over to the
other side of the sea, into the
country of the Gadarenes.
And when He had come out of
the boat, immediately there met
Him out of the tombs a man with
an unclean spirit,
who had his dwelling among
the tombs; and no one could bind
him, not even with chains,
because he had often been
bound with shackles and chains.
And the chains had been pulled
apart by him, and the shackles
broken in pieces; neither could
anyone tame him.
And night and day he was
always in the mountains and in
the tombs, yelling out and cutting
himself with stones.
When he saw Jesus from afar, he
ran and worshiped Him.
And he shouted out with a loud
voice and said, “What have I to
do with You, Jesus, You Son of the
Most High God? I beg You by God
that You do not torment me.”
Because He said to him, “Come
out of the man, you unclean spirit!”
Then He asked him, “What is
your name?” And he answered,
saying, “My name is Legion;
because, we are many.”
And he begged Him earnestly
that He would not send them out
of the country.
Now a large herd of swine was
feeding there near the mountains.
And all the demons begged Him,
saying, “Send us into the swine,
that we may enter into them.”
And immediately Jesus gave
them permission. Then the
unclean spirits went out and
entered into the swine (there
were about two thousand); and
the herd ran violently down the
steep place into the sea, and
drowned in the sea.
And those who fed the swine
fl ed, and told it in the city, and
in the country. And they went
out to see what it was that had
happened.
Then they came to Jesus, and
saw the one who had been demon
possessed and had the legion, sitting
and clothed and in his right
mind. And they were afraid.
And those who saw it told them
how it happened to him who had
been demon possessed, and also
concerning the swine.
Then they began to plead with
Him to depart from their region.
And when He got into the boat,
he who had been demon possessed
begged Him that he might
be with Him.
However, Jesus did not permit
him, but said to him, “Go home to
your friends, and tell them what
great things the Lord has done for
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you, and how He has had compassion
on you.”
And he departed and began
to proclaim in Decapolis all the
great things that Jesus had done
for him; and everyone marveled.
Now when Jesus had crossed
over again by boat to the other
side, many people gathered to
Him; and He was near the sea.
And behold, one of the rulers
of the synagogue came, Jairus by
name. And when he saw Him, he
fell at His feet
and begged Him earnestly,
saying, “My little daughter lies
at the point of death. I beg you,
come and lay Your hands on her,
that she may be healed, and she
will live.”
So Jesus went with him, and a
large crowd followed Him and
swarmed Him.
Now a certain woman had a
fl ow of blood for twelve years,
and had suff ered many things
from many physicians. She had
spent all that she had and was no
better, but rather grew worse.
When she heard about Jesus,
she came behind Him in the
crowd and touched His clothes.
Because, she said, “If only I
may touch His clothes, I will be
made well.”
And immediately the fountain
of her blood was dried up, and
she felt in her body that she was
healed of the affl iction.
And Jesus, immediately knowing
in Himself that virtue had
gone out of Him, turned around
in the crowd and said, “Who
touched My clothes?”
But His disciples said to Him,
“You see the crowd swarming You,
and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”
And He looked around to see
her who had done this thing.
But the woman, fearing and
trembling, knowing what had
happened to her, came and fell
down before Him and told Him
the whole truth.
And He said to her, “Daughter,
your faith has made you well. Go
in peace, and be healed of your
affl iction.”
While He was still speaking,
there came some from the ruler of
the synagogue’s house who said,
“Your daughter is dead. Why
trouble the Teacher any further?”
As soon as Jesus heard the word
that was spoken, He said to the
ruler of the synagogue, “Do not
be afraid; only believe.”
And He permitted no one to follow
Him except Peter, James, and
John the brother of James.
Then He came to the house of
the ruler of the synagogue, and
saw the tumult and those who
wept and wailed loudly.
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And when He came in, He said
to them, “Why make this commotion
and weep? The girl is not
dead, but sleeping.”
And they ridiculed Him. But when
He had put them all outside, He took
the father and the mother of the
child, and those who were with Him,
and entered where the girl was lying.
Then He took the girl by the
hand, and said to her, “Talitha,
cumi,” which is translated, “Little
girl, I say to you, arise.”
And immediately the girl arose
and walked, because, she was
twelve years of age. And they were
overcome with great astonishment.
But He commanded them
strictly that no one should know
it, and commanded that something
should be given her to eat.
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Then He went out from there
and came into His own country,
and His disciples followed Him.
And when the Sabbath day
had come, He began to teach in
the synagogue. And many hearing
Him were astonished, saying,
“Where did this Man get these
things? And what wisdom is this
which is given to Him, that even
such mighty works are performed
by His hands?
Is this not the carpenter, the Son
of Mary, and the brother of James,
Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are
not His sisters here with us?” So
they were off ended at Him.
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet
is not without honor except in his
own country, among his own relatives,
and in his own house.”
Now He could do no mighty
work there, except that He laid
His hands on a few sick people
and healed them.
And He marveled because of their
unbelief. Then He went around
about the villages teaching.
And He called the twelve to
Himself, and began to send them
out two by two, and gave them
power over unclean spirits.
And commanded them that
they should take nothing for their
journey except only a staff , no
bag, no bread, no money in their
money belts;
but to wear sandals, and not put
on two coats.
He also said to them, “In whatever
place you enter into a house,
stay there until you depart from
that place.
And whoever will not receive
you nor hear you, when you
depart from there, shake off the
dust under your feet for a testimony
against them. Truly, I say to
you, it will be more tolerable for
Sodom and Gomorrah in the day
of judgment than for that city!”
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So they went out, and preached
that people should repent.
And they cast out many demons,
and anointed with oil many who
were sick, and healed them.
Now King Herod heard of Him,
because His name had become
well known. And he said “That
John the Baptist was risen from
the dead, and therefore these
mighty works are at work in him.”
Others said, “It is Elijah.” And
others said, “It is a prophet, or
like one of the prophets.”
But when Herod heard of it,
he said, “This is John, whom I
beheaded; he has risen from
the dead.”
Because, Herod himself had
sent out and laid hold of John,
and bound him in prison for the
sake of Herodias, his brother
Philip’s wife; because he had
married her.
Because John had said to Herod,
“It is not lawful for you to have
your brother’s wife.”
Therefore Herodias had this disagreement
with him, and wanted
to kill him, but she could not;
because Herod feared John,
knowing that he was a just and
holy man, and protected him. And
when he heard him, he did many
things, and heard him gladly.
Then when a convenient day
came that Herod on his birthday
gave a feast for his nobles, high
offi cers, and chief men of Galilee.
And when Herodias’ daughter
herself came in and danced, and
pleased Herod and those who sat
with him, the king said to the girl,
“Ask me whatever you want, and I
will give it to you.”
He also swore to her,
“Whatever you will ask me, I will
give it to you, up to half of my
kingdom.”
So she went out, and said to her
mother, “What should I ask?” And
she said, “The head of John the
Baptist!”
And swiftly she came in immediately
to the king and asked,
saying, “I want you to give me the
head of John the Baptist on a platter
at once.”
And the king was exceedingly
sorry; yet because of his oath and
because of those who sat with
him, he did not want to refuse her.
So immediately the king sent an
executioner and commanded his
head to be brought. And he went
and beheaded him in the prison,
brought his head on a platter,
and gave it to the girl; and the girl
gave it to her mother.
And when his disciples heard
of it, they came and took away his
corpse and laid it in a tomb.
Then the apostles gathered
together to Jesus and told Him
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everything, both what they had
done and what they had taught.
And He said to them, “Come
aside by yourselves to a deserted
place and rest a while.” Because,
there were many coming and
going, and they did not even have
time to eat.
So they departed by boat to a
deserted place privately.
But the crowd saw them
departing. And many knew Him
and ran there on foot from all the
cities, overtook them, and came
together to Him.
And Jesus, when He came
out, saw a large crowd and was
moved with compassion for them,
because they were like sheep not
having a shepherd. So He began
to teach them many things.
And when the day was now
almost over, His disciples came to
Him and said, “This is a deserted
place, and the time has now
passed away.
Send them away, that they may
go into the surrounding country
and into the villages and buy
themselves bread; because, they
have nothing to eat.”
He replied and said to them,
“You give them something to
eat.” And they said to Him, “Shall
we go and buy two hundred denarii
worth of bread and give them
something to eat?”
He said to them, “How many
loaves do you have? Go and see.”
And when they knew they said,
“Five, and two fi sh.”
Then He commanded them
to make everyone sit down in
groups on the green grass.
So they sat down in ranks, in
hundreds and in fi fties.
And when He had taken the fi ve
loaves and the two fi sh, He looked
up to heaven, blessed and broke
the loaves, and gave them to His
disciples to set before them; and
the two fi sh He divided among
them all.
So they all ate and were fi lled.
And they took up twelve baskets
full of fragments and of the fi sh.
Now those who had eaten the
loaves were about five thousand
men.
And immediately He made His
disciples get into the boat and go
ahead of Him to the other side, to
Bethsaida, while He sent the people
away.
And when He had sent them
away, He departed to a mountain
to pray.
Now when evening came, the
boat was in the midst of the sea;
and He was alone on the land.
Then He saw them straining
at rowing, because the wind
was against them. Now about
the fourth watch of the night He
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came to them, walking on the sea,
and would have passed them by.
And when they saw Him walking
on the sea, they supposed it
was a spirit, and shouted out;
because they all saw Him and
were troubled. But immediately
He talked with them and said to
them, “Be of good cheer! It is Me;
do not be afraid.”
Then He went up into the boat
to them, and the wind ceased.
And they were greatly amazed in
themselves beyond measure, and
marveled.
Because, they did not consider
the miracle of the loaves, because
their heart was hardened.
And when they had crossed
over, they came to the land of
Gennesaret and drew to the shore.
And when they came out of the
boat, immediately the people recognized
Him,
ran through that entire surrounding
region, and began
to carry about on beds those
who were sick to wherever they
heard He was.
And wherever He entered, into
villages, cities, or country, they
laid the sick in the streets, and
begged Him that they might just
touch the edge of His clothes. And
as many as touched Him were
made well.
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Then the Pharisees and some of
the scribes came together to Him,
having come from Jerusalem.
Now when they saw some of His
disciples eat bread with defi led,
that is, with unwashed hands,
they found fault.
Because, the Pharisees and all
the Jews do not eat unless they
wash their hands often, holding
the tradition of the elders.
And when they come from the
marketplace, they do not eat
unless they wash. And there are
many other things which they
have received to embrace, like the
washing of cups, pots, copper vessels,
and couches.
Then the Pharisees and scribes
asked Him, “Why do Your disciples
not walk according to the
tradition of the elders, but eat
bread with unwashed hands?”
He answered and said to them,
“Rightly has Isaiah prophesied of
you hypocrites as it is written:
‘This people honor Me with their
lips, but their heart is far from Me.
Therefore in vain do they worship
Me, teaching as doctrines
the commandments of men.’
Because laying aside the commandment
of God, you embrace
the tradition of men, like the
washing of pots and cups, and
many other such things you do.”
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And He said to them, “All too
well you reject the commandment
of God, that you may keep
your own tradition.
Because, Moses said, ‘Honor
your father and your mother’;
and, ‘He who curses father or
mother, let him be put to death.’
But you claim, ‘If a man says to
his father or mother, “Whatever
profi t you might have received
from me is Corban”’ (that is to say,
a gift), then he will be exempt,
then you no longer permit him
to do anything for his father or
his mother,
making the word of God of no
eff ect through your tradition
which you have handed down.
And many such things you do.”
And when He had called all the
people to Himself, He said to them,
“Hear Me, everyone of you, and
understand:
There is nothing that enters
a man from outside which can
defi le him; but the things which
come out of him, those are the
things that defi le a man.
If anyone has ears to hear, let
him hear!”
And when He had entered a
house away from the people, His
disciples asked Him concerning
the parable.
So He said to them, “Are you
likewise without understanding
also? Do you not perceive that
whatever enters a man from outside
cannot defi le him,
because, it does not enter his
heart but the stomach, and goes
out into the drain, thus purging
all foods?”
And He said, “That which comes
out of a man, that defi les a man.
Because, from within, out of
the heart of men, proceed evil
thoughts, adulteries, fornications,
murders,
thefts, covetousness, wickedness,
deceit, perversion,
an evil eye, blasphemy, pride,
foolishness.
All these evil things come from
within and defi le the man.”
And from there He arose and
went to the region of Tyre and
Sidon. And He entered into a
house and wanted no one to know
it, but He could not be hidden.
Because, a certain woman whose
young daughter had an unclean
spirit heard about Him, and came
and fell at His feet.
The woman was a Greek, a
Syrophoenician by birth, and she
begged Him that He would cast
the demon out of her daughter.
But Jesus said to her, “Let the
children be fi lled fi rst, because
it is not appropriate to take the
children’s bread and throw it to
the dogs.”
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And she replied and said to
Him, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs
under the table eat from the children’s
crumbs.”
Then He said to her, “Because
of this saying go your way; the
demon has gone out of your
daughter.”
And when she had come to her
house, she found the demon gone
out, and her daughter lying upon
the bed.
And again, departing from the
region of Tyre and Sidon, He came
through the midst of the region
of Decapolis to the Sea of Galilee.
Then they brought to Him one
who was deaf and had an impediment
in his speech, and they begged
Him to put His hand on him.
And He took him aside from
the crowd, and put His fi ngers in
his ears, and He spat and touched
his tongue.
Then, looking up to heaven,
He sighed, and said to him,
“Ephphatha,” that is, “Be
opened.”
And immediately his ears were
opened, and the impediment of
his tongue was loosed, and he
spoke plainly.
Then He commanded them that
they should tell no one; but the
more He commanded them, the
more widely they proclaimed it.
And they were astonished
beyond measure, saying, “He has
done all things well. He makes
both the deaf to hear and the
mute to speak.”
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In those days, the crowds being
very large and having nothing to
eat, Jesus called His disciples to
Him and said to them,
“I have compassion on the multitude,
because they have now
continued with Me three days
and have nothing to eat.
And if I send them away fasting
to their own houses, they will
faint on the way; because, some of
them have come from afar.”
Then His disciples replied to Him,
“How can one satisfy these people
with bread here in the wilderness?”
He asked them, “How many
loaves do you have?” And they
said, “Seven.”
So He commanded the people
to sit down on the ground. And
He took the seven loaves and gave
thanks, broke them and gave them
to His disciples to set before them;
and they set them before the people.
And they also had a few small
fi sh; and having blessed them,
He commanded to set them also
before them.
So they ate and were fi lled, and
they took up seven large baskets
of leftover food fragments.
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Now those who had eaten were
about four thousand, and He sent
them away.
Then immediately He got
into the boat with His disciples,
and came to the region of
Dalmanutha.
And the Pharisees came out
and began to dispute with Him,
seeking from Him a sign from
heaven, testing Him.
But He sighed deeply in His
spirit, and said, “Why does this
generation seek a sign? Truly, I
say to you, no sign will be given
to this generation.”
And He left them, and getting
into the boat again, departed to
the other side.
Now the disciples had forgotten
to take bread, and they did not
have more than one loaf with
them in the boat.
And He charged them, saying,
“Take heed, beware of the leaven
of the Pharisees and the leaven
of Herod.”
And they reasoned among
themselves, saying, “It is because
we have no bread.”
But when Jesus, knew about it,
He said to them, “Why do you reason
because you have no bread?
Do you not yet perceive nor
understand? Is your heart still
hardened?
Having eyes, do you not see?
And having ears, do you not hear?
And do you not remember?
And when I broke the fi ve
loaves for the fi ve thousand, how
many baskets full of fragments
did you take up?” They said to
Him, “Twelve.”
“Also, when the seven for the
four thousand, how many large
baskets full of fragments did you
take up?” And they said, “Seven.”
So He said to them, “How is it
that you do not understand?”
Then He came to Bethsaida; and
they brought a blind man to Him,
and begged Him to touch him.
So He took the blind man by the
hand and led him out of the town.
And when He had spat on his eyes
and put His hands on him, He
asked him if he saw anything.
And he looked up and said, “I
see men like trees, walking.”
Then He put His hands on his
eyes again and made him look
up. And he was restored and saw
everyone clearly.
Then He sent him away to his
house, saying, “Neither go into
the town, nor tell it to anyone in
the town.”
Now Jesus and His disciples
went out to the towns of Caesarea
Philippi; and on the road He asked
His disciples, saying to them,
“Who do men say that I am?”
So they answered, “John the
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Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and
others, one of the prophets.”
He said to them, “But who do you
say that I am?” Peter answered and
said to Him, “You are the Christ.”
Then He strictly warned them
that they should tell no one
about Him.
And He began to teach them
that the Son of Man must suff er
many things, and be rejected by
the elders and by chief priests and
scribes, and be killed, and after
three days rise again.
And He spoke this saying
openly. Then Peter took Him aside
and began to rebuke Him.
But when He had turned
around and looked at His disciples,
He rebuked Peter, saying,
“Get behind Me, Satan! Because,
you are not mindful of the things
that are of God, but the things
that are of men.”
And when He had called the
people to Himself, with His disciples
also, He said to them,
“Whoever desires to come after
Me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow Me.
Because, whoever desires to
save his life will lose it, but whoever
loses his life for My sake and
the gospel’s will save it.
Because, what shall it profi t a
man if he gains the entire world,
and loses his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in
exchange for his soul?
Because, whoever shall be
ashamed of Me and My words in
this adulterous and sinful generation,
of him the Son of Man will
also be ashamed when He comes
in the glory of His Father with the
holy angels.”
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And He said to them, “Truly, I
say to you that there are some
standing here who will not taste
death until they see the kingdom
of God coming with power.”
Now after six days Jesus took
Peter, James, and John, with
Him and led them up on a high
mountain privately by themselves;
and He was transfi gured
before them.
His clothes became shining,
exceedingly white, like snow,
such as no launderer on earth can
whiten them.
And Elijah appeared to them
with Moses, and they were talking
with Jesus.
Then Peter responded and said
to Jesus, “Teacher, it is good for us
to be here; and let us make three
tabernacles: one for You, one for
Moses, and one for Elijah,”
because, he did not know
what to say, because, they were
greatly afraid.
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And a cloud came and overshadowed
them; and a voice came out
of the cloud, saying, “This is My
beloved Son. Hear Him!”
Then suddenly, when they had
looked around, they saw no one
anymore, but only Jesus with
themselves.
Now as they came down from the
mountain, He commanded them
that they should tell no one the
things they had seen, until the Son
of Man had risen from the dead.
So they kept this saying to
themselves, questioning one
another what the rising from the
dead meant.
And they asked Him, saying,
“Why do the scribes say that
Elijah must come fi rst?”
Then He answered and told
them, “Indeed, Elijah comes fi rst
and restores all things; and just
like it is written concerning the
Son of Man, that He must suff er
many things and be treated with
contempt.
But I say to you that Elijah
indeed came, and they did to him
whatever they wished, as it is
written of him.”
And when He came to His
disciples, He saw a large crowd
around them, and scribes disputing
with them.
And immediately, when they
saw Him, all the people were
greatly amazed, and running to
Him, greeted Him.
And He asked the scribes, “What
are you disputing with them?”
Then one of the crowd
answered and said, “Teacher, I
brought my son to You, who has
a mute spirit.
And wherever it seizes him, it
throws him down; he foams at
the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and
withers away. So I spoke to Your
disciples, that they should cast it
out, but they could not.”
He answered him and said, “O
faithless generation, how long
shall I be with you? How long shall
I bear with you? Bring him to Me.”
Then they brought him to Him.
And when he saw Him, immediately
the spirit convulsed him, and
he fell on the ground and rolled
around, foaming at the mouth.
So He asked his father, “How
long has this been happening
to him?” And he said, “From
childhood.
And often it has thrown him
both into the fi re and into the
water to destroy him. But if You
can do anything, have compassion
on us and help us.”
Jesus said to him, “If you can
believe, all things are possible to
him who believes.”
Immediately the father of the
child cried out and said with
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tears, “Lord, I believe; help my
unbelief!”
When Jesus saw that the people
came running together, He
rebuked the unclean spirit, saying
to it: “You mute and deaf spirit, I
command you, come out of him
and enter into him no more!”
Then the spirit shouted out, convulsed
him greatly, and came out
of him. And he became as one dead,
so that many said, “He is dead.”
But Jesus took him by the hand
and lifted him up, and he arose.
And when He had come into the
house, His disciples asked Him
privately, “Why could we not cast
it out?”
So He said to them, “This kind
can come out by nothing but
through prayer and fasting.”
Then they departed from there
and passed through Galilee, and
He did not want anyone to know it.
Because, He taught His disciples
and said to them, “The Son
of Man is being delivered into the
hands of men, and they will kill
Him. And after He is killed, He
will rise the third day.”
But they did not understand this
saying, and were afraid to ask Him.
Then He came to Capernaum.
And when He was in the house
He asked them, “What was it you
disputed among yourselves on
the road?”
But they kept silent, because,
on the road they had disputed
among themselves who would be
the greatest.
And He sat down, called the
twelve, and said to them, “If anyone
desires to be fi rst, he shall be
last of all and servant of all.”
Then He took a child and set
him in the midst of them. And
when He had taken him in His
arms, He said to them,
“Whoever receives one of these
children in My name receives Me;
and whoever receives Me, receives
not Me but Him who sent Me.”
Now John replied to Him, saying,
“Teacher, we saw someone
who does not follow us casting
out demons in Your name, and we
forbade him because he does not
follow us.”
But Jesus said, “Do not forbid
him, because, no one who works
a miracle in My name can soon
afterward speak evil of Me.
Because he who is not against
us is on our side.
Because, whoever gives you a
cup of water to drink in My name,
because you belong to Christ,
truly, I say to you, he will not lose
his reward.
“But whoever causes one of
these little ones who believe in
Me to stumble, it would be better
for him if a millstone were hung
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around his neck, and he were
thrown into the sea.
And if your hand causes you
to off end, cut it off . It is better
for you to enter into life maimed,
rather than having two hands, to
go to hell, into the fi re that will
never be quenched,
where ‘Their worm does not die
and the fi re is not quenched.’
And if your foot causes you to
off end, cut it off . It is better for
you to enter life lame, rather than
having two feet, to be cast into
hell, into the fi re that will never
be quenched,
where ‘Their worm does not
die, and the fi re is not quenched.’
And if your eye causes you to
off end, pluck it out. It is better
for you to enter the kingdom of
God with one eye, rather than
having two eyes, to be cast into
hell fi re,
where ‘Their worm does not die
and the fi re is not quenched.’
“Because, everyone will be
seasoned with fi re, and every sacrifi
ce will be seasoned with salt.
Salt is good, but if the salt loses
its fl avor, how will you season it?
Have salt in yourselves, and have
peace with one another.”
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Then He arose from there and
came to the region of Judea by the
other side of the Jordan. And crowds
gathered to Him again, and as He was
accustomed, He taught them again.
Then the Pharisees came to Him,
and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man
to put away his wife?” testing Him.
And He answered and said to
them, “What did Moses command
you?”
They said, “Moses permitted
a man to write a certifi cate of
divorce, and to dismiss her.”
And Jesus replied and said to
them, “Because of the hardness
of your heart he wrote you this
precept.
But from the beginning of the
creation, God ‘made them male
and female.’
‘For this reason a man shall
leave his father and mother and
be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one
fl esh’; so then they are no longer
two, but one fl esh.
Therefore what God has joined
together, let not man separate.”
Then in the house, His disciples
asked Him again about the
same matter.
So He said to them, “Whoever
puts away his wife and marries
another commits adultery
against her.
And if a woman puts away her
husband and marries another,
she commits adultery.”
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Then they brought little children
to Him, that He might touch
them; but his disciples rebuked
those who brought them.
But when Jesus saw it, He was
greatly displeased and said to
them, “Permit the little children
to come to Me, and do not forbid
them; because, of such is the
kingdom of God.
Truly, I say to you, whoever does
not receive the kingdom of God as
a little child will not enter into it.”
And He took them up in His
arms, laid His hands on them, and
blessed them.
Now as He was going out on the
road, one came running, knelt
before Him, and asked Him, “Good
Teacher, what shall I do that I may
inherit eternal life?”
So Jesus said to him, “Why do
you call Me good? No one is good
but One, that is, God.
You know the commandments:
‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do
not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do
not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not
defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and
your mother.’”
And he replied and said to Him,
“Teacher, all these things I have
observed from my youth.”
Then Jesus, looking at him,
loved him, and said to him, “One
thing you lack: Go your way, sell
whatever you have and give to
the poor, and you will have treasure
in heaven; and come, take up
the cross, and follow Me.”
But he was sad at that
saying, and went away sorrowful,
because he had many
possessions.
Then Jesus looked around and
said to His disciples, “How hard
it is for those who have riches to
enter the kingdom of God!”
And the disciples were astonished
at His words. But Jesus
responded again and said to
them, “Children, how hard it is
for those who trust in riches to
enter the kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than
for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of God.”
And they were greatly astonished,
saying among themselves,
“Who then can be saved?”
But Jesus looking at them said,
“With men it is impossible, but not
with God; because, with God all
things are possible.”
Then Peter began to say to Him,
“See, we have left all and have followed
You.”
So Jesus replied and said,
“Truly, I say to you, there is no
one who has left house or brothers
or sisters or father or mother
or wife or children or lands, for
My sake and the gospel’s,
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who will not receive a hundredfold
now in this time, houses and
brothers and sisters and mothers
and children and lands, with persecutions,
and in the age to come,
eternal life.
But many who are fi rst will be
last, and the last fi rst.”
Now they were on the road,
going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus
was going before them; and they
were amazed. And as they followed
they were afraid. Then He
took aside the twelve again and
began to tell them the things that
would happen to Him:
Saying, “Behold, we are going
up to Jerusalem, and the Son
of Man will be delivered to the
chief priests and to the scribes;
and they will condemn Him to
death and deliver Him to the
Gentiles;
and they will mock Him, and
will scourge Him, and will spit on
Him, and will kill Him. And the
third day He will rise again.”
Then James and John, the sons
of Zebedee, came to Him, saying,
“Teacher, we want You to do for
us whatever we desire.”
And He said to them, “What do
you want Me to do for you?”
They said to Him, “Grant us
that we may sit, one on Your right
hand and the other on Your left,
in Your glory.”
But Jesus said to them, “You do
not know what you ask. Are you
able to drink the cup that I drink
of, and be baptized with the baptism
that I am baptized with?”
They said to Him, “We are able.”
So Jesus said to them, “You will
indeed drink the cup that I drink,
and with the baptism I am baptized
with you will be baptized;
but to sit on My right hand and
on My left hand is not Mine to
give, but it will be given to those for
whom it is prepared.”
And when the ten heard it, they
began to be greatly displeased
with James and John.
But Jesus called them to Himself
and said to them, “You know that
those who are considered rulers
over the Gentiles lord it over
them, and their great ones exercise
authority over them.
Yet it shall not be so among
you; but whoever desires to
become great among you will be
your servant.
And whoever of you desires to
be chief shall be servant of all.
Because, even the Son of Man
did not come to be ministered to,
but to minister, and to give His
life a ransom for many.”
Now they came to Jericho.
As He went out of Jericho with
His disciples and a large crowd,
blind Bartimaeus, the son of
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Timaeus, sat by the roadside
begging.
And when he heard that it was
Jesus of Nazareth, he began to
shout out and say, “Jesus, You Son
of David, have mercy on me!”
Then many warned him that he
should be quiet; but he shouted
out all the more, “You Son of
David, have mercy on me!”
So Jesus stood still and commanded
him to be called. Then
they called the blind man, saying
to him, “Be of good cheer. Rise, He
is calling you.”
And throwing aside his coat, he
rose and came to Jesus.
So Jesus replied and said to
him, “What do you want Me to
do for you?” The blind man said
to Him, “Lord, that I may receive
my sight.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Go
your way; your faith has made
you well.” And immediately he
received his sight and followed
Jesus on the road.
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Now when they came near to
Jerusalem, to Bethphage and
Bethany, at the Mount of Olives,
He sent out two of His disciples;
and He said to them, “Go your
way into the village opposite you;
and as soon as you have entered
into it you will fi nd a colt tied, on
which no one has sat. Loose him
and bring him.
And if anyone says to you, ‘Why
are you doing this?’ say that, ‘The
Lord has need of him,’ and immediately
he will send him here.”
So they went their way, and
found the colt tied by the door
outside in a place where two
roads meet, and they loosed him.
But some of those who stood
there said to them, “What are you
doing, loosing the colt?”
And they spoke to them just as
Jesus had commanded. So they let
them go.
Then they brought the colt to
Jesus and threw their clothes on
him, and He sat upon him.
And many spread their clothes
on the road, and others cut down
branches from the trees and
spread them on the road.
Then those who went before and
those who followed shouted, saying:
“Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who
comes in the name of the LORD!’
Blessed be the kingdom of our
father David that comes in the
name of the Lord! Hosanna in the
highest!”
And Jesus entered into
Jerusalem and into the temple. So
when He had looked around at all
things, as the hour was already
late, He went out to Bethany with
the twelve.
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Now the next day, when they
had come out from Bethany, He
was hungry.
And seeing from afar a fi g tree
having leaves, He went to see if
perhaps He would fi nd something
on it. And when He came to it, He
found nothing but leaves, because
it was not yet the season for fi gs.
And Jesus responded and said
to it, “Let no one eat fruit from
you ever again.” And His disciples
heard it.
Then they came to Jerusalem.
And Jesus went into the temple
and began to drive out those who
bought and sold in the temple,
and overturned the tables of the
money changers and the seats of
those who sold doves.
And He would not permit anyone
to carry any vessel through
the temple.
Then He taught, saying to them,
“Is it not written, ‘My house shall
be called a house of prayer for all
nations’? But you have made it a
‘den of thieves.’”
And the scribes and chief
priests heard it and sought
how they might destroy Him;
because they feared Him, as all
the people were astonished at
His doctrine.
And when evening had come,
He went out of the city.
Now in the morning, as they
passed by, they saw the fi g tree
dried up from the roots.
And Peter, remembering, said
to Him, “Teacher, look! The fi g
tree which You cursed has withered
away.”
So Jesus replied and said to
them, “Have faith in God.
Because, truly, I say to you,
whoever shall say to this mountain,
‘Be removed and be cast into
the sea,’ and does not doubt in
his heart, but believes that those
things he says will come to pass,
he will have whatever he says.
Therefore I say to you, whatever
things you desire when you pray,
believe that you receive them, and
you will have them.
“And whenever you stand praying,
if you have anything against
anyone, forgive, that your Father
in heaven may also forgive you
your trespasses.
But if you do not forgive, neither
will your Father in heaven
forgive your trespasses.”
Then they came again to
Jerusalem. And as He was walking
in the temple, the chief
priests, the scribes, and the
elders came to Him.
And they said to Him, “By what
authority are You doing these
things? And who gave You this
authority to do these things?”
But Jesus answered and said
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to them, “I also will ask you one
question; then answer Me, and I
will tell you by what authority I
do these things:
The baptism of John, was
it from heaven or from men?
Answer Me.”
And they reasoned among themselves,
saying, “If we shall say,
‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why
then did you not believe him?’
But if we say, ‘From men,’” they
feared the people, because, everyone
counted John to have been a
prophet indeed.
So they answered and said to
Jesus, “We cannot tell.” And Jesus
replied and said to them, “Neither
will I tell you by what authority I
do these things.”
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Then He began to speak to
them in parables: “A certain man
planted a vineyard and set a
hedge around it, dug a place for the
grape juice vat and built a tower.
And he leased it to vinedressers
and went into a far country.
Now when the season came he
sent a servant to the vinedressers,
that he might receive some of
the fruit of the vineyard from the
vinedressers.
And they took him and beat him
and sent him away empty handed.
So, again he sent them another
servant, and they threw stones at
him, wounded him in the head, and
sent him away shamefully treated.
And again he sent another, and
him they killed; and many others,
beating some and killing some.
Therefore still having one son,
his dearly beloved, he also sent
him to them last, saying, ‘They
shall reverence my son.’
But those vinedressers said
among themselves, ‘This is the
heir. Come, let us kill him, and the
inheritance will be ours.’
So they took him and killed him
and cast him out of the vineyard.
“Therefore what shall the owner
of the vineyard do? He will come
and destroy the vinedressers, and
give the vineyard to others.
Have you not even read this
Scripture: ‘The stone which the
builders rejected has become the
chief cornerstone.
This was the LORD’S doing, and
it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
And they sought to lay hands
on Him, but feared the people,
because, they knew that He
had spoken the parable against
them. So they left Him and went
their way.
Then they sent to Him some of
the Pharisees and the Herodians,
to catch Him in His words.
When they had come, they said
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to Him, “Teacher, we know that
You are true, and esteem no one;
because, You do not regard the
person of men, but teach the way
of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay
taxes to Caesar, or not?
Should we give, or should we
not give?” But He, knowing their
hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do
you test Me? Bring Me a denarius
that I may see it.”
So they brought it. And He
said to them, “Whose image and
inscription is this?” They said to
Him, “Caesar’s.”
And Jesus replied and said
to them, “Render to Caesar the
things that are Caesar’s, and to
God the things that are God’s.”
And they marveled at Him.
Then some Sadducees, who
say there is no resurrection,
came to Him; and they asked
Him, saying:
“Teacher, Moses wrote to us
that if a man’s brother dies, and
leaves his wife behind, and leaves
no children, that his brother
should take his wife and raise up
off spring for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers.
The fi rst took a wife; and dying,
he left no off spring.
And the second took her, and
he died; nor did he leave any off -
spring. And the third likewise.
So the seven had her and left no
off spring. Last of all the woman
died also.
Therefore, in the resurrection,
when they rise, whose wife shall
she be? Because all seven had her
as wife.”
Jesus answered and said to
them, “Are you not in error
because of this, because, you do
not know the Scriptures nor the
power of God?
Because, when they rise from
the dead, they neither marry nor
are given in marriage, but are like
the angels who are in heaven.
But concerning the dead, that
they rise, have you not read in the
book of Moses, how in the bush
God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am
the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
He is not the God of the dead,
but the God of the living. You are
greatly in error because of this.”
Then one of the scribes came,
and having heard them reasoning
together, perceiving that He had
answered them well, asked Him,
“Which is the fi rst commandment
of all?”
And Jesus answered him, “The
fi rst of all the commandments is:
‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God
is one LORD.
And you shall love the LORD
your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, with all your
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mind, and with all your strength.’
This is the fi rst commandment.
And the second is similar, being
this: ‘You shall love your neighbor
as yourself.’ There is no other commandment
greater than these.”
So the scribe said to Him, “Well
said, Teacher. You have spoken the
truth, because there is one God,
and there is no other but He.
And to love Him with all the heart,
with all the understanding, with all
the soul, and with all the strength,
and to love one’s neighbor as oneself,
is more than all of the entire
burnt off erings and sacrifi ces.”
Now when Jesus saw that he
responded wisely, He said to him,
“You are not far from the kingdom
of God.” But after that no
one dared ask Him any questions.
Then Jesus responded and said,
while He taught in the temple,
“How is it that the scribes say that
Christ is the Son of David?
Because David himself said by
the Holy Spirit: ‘The LORD said to
my Lord, “Sit at My right hand,
until I make Your enemies Your
footstool.”’
Therefore David himself calls
Him ‘Lord’; how is He then his
Son?” And the common people
heard Him gladly.
Then He said to them in His
doctrine, “Beware of the scribes,
who desire to go around in long
robes, love greetings in the
marketplaces,
the best seats in the synagogues,
and the best places at feasts,
who devour widows’ houses,
and for an exhibition make
long prayers. These will receive
greater damnation.”
Now Jesus sat opposite the
treasury and saw how the people
put money into the treasury. And
many who were rich put in much.
Then one poor widow came and
threw in two mites, which make a
quadrans.
So He called His disciples to
Himself and said to them, “Truly,
I say to you that this poor widow
has put in more than all those
who have given into the treasury;
because, they all put in out of
their abundance, but she out of
her poverty put in all that she
had, even her entire livelihood.”
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Then as He went out of the temple,
one of His disciples said to
Him, “Teacher, see what manner of
stones and what buildings are here!”
And Jesus replied and said to
him, “Do you see these great
buildings? Not one stone will be
left upon another, that will not be
thrown down.”
Now as He sat on the Mount of
Olives opposite the temple, Peter,
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James, John, and Andrew asked
Him privately,
“Tell us, when shall these things
be? And what shall be the sign
when all these things shall be
fulfi lled?”
And Jesus, answering them,
began to say: “Take heed that no
one deceives you.
Because, many will come in My
name, saying, ‘I am Christ,’ and
will deceive many.
But when you hear of wars and
rumors of wars, do not be troubled;
because, such things must
happen, but the end will not be yet.
Because nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against
kingdom. And there will be earthquakes
in various places, and
there will be famines and troubles.
These are the beginnings of
sorrows.
“But watch out for yourselves,
because, they will deliver you up
to councils, and you will be beaten
in the synagogues. You will be
brought before rulers and kings for
My sake, for a testimony to them.
And the gospel must fi rst be
preached to all the nations.
But when they arrest you and
deliver you up, do not worry
beforehand, or premeditate what
you will speak. But whatever is
given you in that hour, speak that;
because it is not you who speaks,
but the Holy Spirit.
Now brother will betray brother
to death, and a father his son; and
children will rise up against their
parents and will cause them to be
put to death.
And you will be hated by all
people for My name’s sake. But he
who endures to the end, the same
will be saved.
“But when you see the ‘abomination
of desolation,’ spoken of
by Daniel the prophet, standing
where it ought not” (let the reader
understand), “then let those who
are in Judea fl ee to the mountains.
Let him who is on the housetop
not go down into the house, nor
enter into it to take anything out
of his house.
And let him who is in the fi eld
not turn back again to get his
clothes.
But woe to those who are pregnant
and to those who are nursing
babes in those days!
And pray that your fl ight may
not be in winter.
Because, in those days there
will be affl iction, such as has not
been since the beginning of the
creation which God created until
this time, nor ever will be.
And unless the Lord had shortened
those days, no fl esh would
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be saved; but for the elect’s sake,
whom He has chosen, He shortened
the days.
“Then if anyone says to you,
‘Look, here is Christ!’ or, ‘Look, He
is there!’ do not believe them.
Because, false christs and false
prophets will rise and show signs
and wonders to seduce, if it were
possible, even the elect.
But take heed; behold, I have
told you all things beforehand.
“But in those days, after that
tribulation, the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give
her light;
the stars of heaven will fall,
and the powers in the heavens
will be shaken.
Then they will see the Son of
Man coming in the clouds with
great power and glory.
And then He will send His
angels, and gather together His
elect from the four winds, from
the farthest part of the earth to
the farthest part of heaven.
“Now learn this parable from
the fi g tree: When its branch has
already become tender, and puts
forth leaves, you know that summer
is near.
So you also, when you see these
things come to pass, know that it
is near, even at the doors!
Truly, I say to you, this
generation will not pass away
until all these things are done.
Heaven and earth will pass away,
but My words will not pass away.
“But of that day and that hour
no one knows, no, not the angels
which are in heaven, nor the Son,
but the Father.
Take heed, watch and pray;
because, you do not know when
the time is.
Because, the Son of Man is like a
man going to a far country, who
left his house and gave authority
to his servants, and to every person
his work, and commanded
the doorkeeper to watch.
Watch therefore, because,
you do not know when the master
of the house is coming, in
the evening, at midnight, at the
crowing of the rooster, or in the
morning,
lest, coming suddenly, he fi nd
you sleeping.
And what I say to you, I say to
all: Watch!”
CHAPTER
After two days it was the Feast
of the Passover and of Unleavened
Bread. And the chief priests and
the scribes sought how they
might take Him by deception and
put Him to death.
But they said, “Not on the feast
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day, lest there be an uproar of the
people.”
And being in Bethany at the
house of Simon the leper, as He
sat at the table, a woman came
having an alabaster fl ask of very
costly oil of spikenard. Then she
broke the fl ask and poured it on
His head.
But there were some who were
indignant among themselves,
and said, “Why was this fragrant
oil wasted?
Because, it might have been sold
for more than three hundred denarii
and had been given to the poor.”
And they murmured against her.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone.
Why do you trouble her? She has
done a good work for Me.
Because, you have the poor with
you always, and whenever you
desire you can do them good; but
Me you do not have always.
She has done what she could.
She has come beforehand to
anoint My body for burial.
Truly, I say to you, wherever
this gospel is preached in the
entire world, what this woman
has done will also be told as a
memorial to her.”
Then Judas Iscariot, one of the
twelve, went to the chief priests
to betray Him to them.
And when they heard it, they
were glad, and promised to give
him money. So he sought how he
might conveniently betray Him.
Now on the fi rst day of
Unleavened Bread, when they
killed the Passover, His disciples
said to Him, “Where do You want
us to go and prepare, that You
may eat the Passover?”
And He sent out two of His disciples
and said to them, “Go into the
city, and a man will meet you carrying
a pitcher of water; follow him.
Wherever he goes in, say to the
master of the house, ‘The Teacher
says, “Where is the guest room in
which I may eat the Passover with
My disciples?”’
Then he will show you a large
upper room, furnished and prepared;
there make preparations
for us.”
So His disciples went out, and
came into the city, and found it
just as He had said to them; and
they prepared the Passover.
In the evening He came with
the twelve.
Now as they sat and ate, Jesus
said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you
who eats with Me will betray Me.”
And they began to be sorrowful,
and to say to Him one by
one, “Is it I?” And another said,
“Is it I?”
He answered and said to them,
“It is one of the twelve, who dips
with Me in the dish.
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The Son of Man indeed goes
just as it is written of Him, but
woe to that man by whom the Son
of Man is betrayed! It would have
been good for that man if he had
never been born.”
And as they were eating, Jesus
took bread, blessed and broke
it, and gave it to them and said,
“Take, eat; this is My body.”
Then He took the cup, and when
He had given thanks He gave it to
them, and they all drank of it.
And He said to them, “This is
My blood of the new covenant,
which is shed for many.
Truly, I say to you, I will no longer
drink of the fruit of the vine
until that day when I drink it new
in the kingdom of God.”
And when they had sung a
song, they went out to the Mount
of Olives.
Then Jesus said to them, “All of you
will be made to stumble because of
Me this night, because, it is written:
‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the
sheep will be scattered.’
“But after I have been raised, I
will go before you to Galilee.”
But Peter said to Him, “Even if
all are made to stumble, yet I will
not be.”
Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say
to you that today, even this night,
before the rooster crows twice,
you will deny Me three times.”
But he spoke more vehemently,
“If I have to die with You, I will
not deny You in any way!” And
they all said likewise.
Then they came to a place
which was named Gethsemane;
and He said to His disciples, “You
sit here while I pray.”
And He took Peter, James, and
John with Him, and began to be
troubled and very distressed.
Then He said to them, “My soul
is exceedingly sorrowful, even to
death. Stay here and watch.”
He went a little farther, and fell
on the ground, and prayed that if
it were possible, the hour might
pass from Him.
And He said, “Abba, Father, all
things are possible for You. Take
this cup away from Me; nevertheless,
not what I will, but what
You will.”
Then He came and found
them sleeping, and said to Peter,
“Simon, are you sleeping? Could
you not watch one hour?
Watch and pray all of you, lest
you enter into temptation. Truly
the spirit is willing, but the fl esh
is weak.”
Again He went away and prayed,
and spoke the same words.
And when He returned, He
found them asleep again, because
their eyes were heavy; and they
did not know what to answer Him.
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Then He came the third time
and said to them, “Sleep now and
take your rest, it is enough! The
hour has come; behold, the Son
of Man is being betrayed into the
hands of sinners.
Rise, let us be going. See, he
who betrays Me is at hand.”
And immediately, while He was
still speaking, Judas, one of the
twelve, with a large crowd with
swords and clubs, came from the
chief priests and the scribes and
the elders.
Now His betrayer had
given them a signal, saying,
“Whomever I kiss, He is the One;
seize Him and lead Him away
safely.”
And as soon as he had come,
immediately he went up to
Him and said to Him, “Teacher,
Teacher!” and kissed Him.
Then they laid their hands on
Him and took Him.
And one of those who stood by
drew a sword and struck the servant
of the high priest, and cut off
his ear.
Then Jesus responded and said
to them, “Have you come out, as
against a thief, with swords and
clubs to take Me?
I was daily with you in the
temple teaching, and you did not
seize Me. But the Scriptures must
be fulfi lled.”
Then they all forsook Him
and fl ed.
Now a certain young man followed
Him, having a linen cloth
thrown around his naked body. And
the young men laid hold of him,
and he left the linen cloth and
fl ed from them naked.
And they led Jesus away to the
high priest; and with him were
assembled all the chief priests,
the elders, and the scribes.
But Peter followed Him at a distance,
right into the courtyard of the
high priest. And he sat with the servants
and warmed himself at the fi re.
Now the chief priests and all
the council sought testimony
against Jesus to put Him to death,
but found none.
Because, many bore false
witness against Him, but their
testimonies did not agree.
Then some rose up and bore
false witness against Him, saying,
“We heard Him say, ‘I will
destroy this temple that is made
with hands, and within three
days I will build another made
without hands.’”
But not even then did their testimony
agree together.
And the high priest stood up
in the midst and asked Jesus,
saying, “Do You answer nothing?
What is it that these people testify
against You?”
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But He kept silent and answered
nothing. Again the high priest
asked Him, saying to Him, “Are You
the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
Jesus said, “I am. And you will
see the Son of Man sitting at the
right hand of the Power, and coming
with the clouds of heaven.”
Then the high priest tore his
clothes and said, “What further
need do we have of witnesses?
You have heard the blasphemy!
What do you think?” And they all
condemned Him to be deserving
of death.
Then some began to spit on
Him, and to cover His face, and
to beat Him, and to say to Him,
“Prophesy!” And the offi cers
struck Him with the palms of
their hands.
Now as Peter was below in the
courtyard, one of the servant
girls of the high priest came.
And when she saw Peter warming
himself, she looked at him and
said, “You also were with Jesus of
Nazareth.”
But he denied it, saying, “I neither
know nor understand what
you are saying.” And he went out
on the porch, and a rooster crowed.
And the servant girl saw him
again, and began to say to those
who stood by, “This is one of them.”
But he denied it again. And a little
later those who stood by said to
Peter again, “Surely you are one of
them; because, you are a Galilean,
and your speech reveals it.”
Then he began to curse and
swear, saying, “I do not know this
Man of whom you speak!”
A second time the rooster crowed.
Then Peter called to mind the word
that Jesus had said to him, “Before
the rooster crows twice, you will
deny Me three times.” And when
he thought about it, he wept.
CHAPTER
Then immediately, in the
morning, the chief priests held a
consultation with the elders and
scribes and the entire council;
and they bound Jesus, led Him
away, and delivered Him to Pilate.
Then Pilate asked Him, “Are You
the King of the Jews?” And He
answered and said to him, “It is as
you say.”
And the chief priests accused
Him of many things, but He
answered nothing.
Then Pilate asked Him again,
saying, “Do You answer nothing?
See how many things they witness
against You!”
But Jesus still answered nothing,
so that Pilate marveled.
Now at that feast he would
release one prisoner to them,
whomever they requested.
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And there was one named
Barabbas, who lay chained with
his fellow rebels; they had committed
murder in the rebellion.
Then the crowd, shouting
loudly, began to ask him to do just
as he had always done for them.
But Pilate answered them, saying,
“Do you want me to release to
you the King of the Jews?”
Because he knew that the chief
priests had handed Him over
because of envy.
But the chief priests stirred
up the people, so that he should
rather release Barabbas to them.
Then Pilate answered and said
to them again, “What then do you
want me to do to Him whom you
call the King of the Jews?”
So they shouted out again,
“Crucify Him!”
Then Pilate said to them, “Why,
what evil has He done?” But they
shouted out all the more earnestly,
“Crucify Him!”
And so Pilate, wanting to gratify
the people, released Barabbas
to them; and he delivered Jesus,
after he had scourged Him, to be
crucifi ed.
Then the soldiers led Him away
into the hall called Praetorium,
and they called together the
entire garrison.
And they clothed Him with
purple; and they platted a crown
of thorns, put it on His head,
and began to salute Him, “Hail,
King of the Jews!”
Then they struck Him on the
head with a reed and spat on Him;
and bowing their knees, they worshiped
Him.
And when they had mocked
Him, they took the purple off
Him, put His own clothes on Him,
and led Him out to crucify Him.
Then they compelled a certain
man, Simon a Cyrenian, the
father of Alexander and Rufus, as
he was coming out of the country
and passing by, to carry His cross.
And they brought Him to the
place Golgotha, which is translated,
The Place of a Skull.
Then they gave Him wine mingled
with myrrh to drink, but He
did not take it.
And when they crucifi ed Him,
they divided His clothes, casting
lots for them to determine what
every man should take.
Now it was the third hour, and
they crucifi ed Him.
And the inscription of His accusation
was written above: THE
KING OF THE JEWS.
And with Him they also crucifi
ed two thieves, one on His right
hand and the other on His left.
So the Scripture was fulfi lled
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which says, “And He was numbered
with the transgressors.”
And those who passed by ridiculed
Him, shaking their heads
and saying, “Aha! You who
destroys the temple and builds it
in three days,
save Yourself, and come down
from the cross!”
Likewise the chief priests also,
mocking among themselves with
the scribes, said, “He saved others;
He cannot save Himself.
Let Christ, the King of Israel,
descend now from the cross, that
we may see and believe.” Even
those who were crucifi ed with
Him reviled Him.
Now when the sixth hour had
come, there was darkness over the
entire land until the ninth hour.
And at the ninth hour Jesus
shouted out with a loud voice,
saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”
which is translated, “My
God, My God, why have You forsaken
Me?”
And when they heard that,
some of those who stood by said,
“Behold, He is calling for Elijah!”
Then someone ran and fi lled a
sponge full of vinegar, put it on
a reed, and off ered it to Him to
drink, saying, “Let Him alone; let
us see if Elijah will come to take
Him down.”
And Jesus shouted out with a
loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
Then the veil of the temple was
torn in two from top to bottom.
So when the centurion, who
stood opposite Him, saw that He
shouted out like this and gave
up the spirit, he said, “Truly this
Man was the Son of God!”
There were also women looking
on from afar, among whom
were Mary Magdalene, Mary the
mother of James the Less and of
Joses, and Salome,
who also followed Him and
ministered to Him when He
was in Galilee, and many other
women who came up with Him to
Jerusalem.
Now when evening had come,
because it was the Preparation,
that is, the day before the Sabbath,
Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable
council member, who also
waited for the kingdom of God,
came, and went in boldly to Pilate
and sought the body of Jesus.
Pilate marveled that He was
already dead; and summoning the
centurion to him, he asked him if
He had been dead for some time.
So when he knew it from the centurion,
he gave the body to Joseph.
Then he bought fi ne linen, took
Him down, and wrapped Him
in the linen. And he laid Him in
a tomb which had been cut out
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of the rock, and rolled a stone
against the door of the tomb.
And Mary Magdalene and Mary
the mother of Joses observed where
He was laid.
CHAPTER
Now when the Sabbath was
past, Mary Magdalene, Mary
the mother of James, and Salome
bought sweet spices, that they
might come and anoint Him.
And very early in the morning, on
the fi rst day of the week, they came
to the tomb at the rising of the sun.
And they said among themselves,
“Who shall roll away the stone
from the door of the tomb for us?”
But when they looked, they saw
that the stone had been rolled
away, because, it was very large.
And entering the tomb, they
saw a young man clothed in a
long white robe sitting on the
right side; and they were afraid.
But he said to them, “Do not be
afraid. You seek Jesus of Nazareth,
who was crucifi ed. He is risen!
He is not here. Behold the place
where they laid Him.
But go your way, tell His disciples,
and Peter, that He is going
before you into Galilee; there you
will see Him, as He said to you.”
So they went out quickly and
fl ed from the tomb, because they
trembled and were astonished.
And they said nothing to anyone,
because they were afraid.
Now when Jesus was risen
early on the fi rst day of the
week, He appeared fi rst to Mary
Magdalene, out of whom He had
cast seven demons.
And she went and told those
who had been with Him, as they
mourned and wept.
And when they heard that He
was alive and had been seen by
her, they did not believe.
After that, He appeared in
another form to two of them as
they walked and went into the
country.
And they went and told it to
the rest, but they did not believe
them either.
Later He appeared to the eleven
as they sat at the table; and He
rebuked their unbelief and hardness
of heart, because they did
not believe those who had seen
Him after He had risen.
And He said to them, “Go into
all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature.
He who believes and is baptized
will be saved; but he who does not
believe will be damned.
And these signs will follow
those who believe: In My name
they will cast out demons; they
will speak with new tongues;
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they will take up serpents; and
if they drink any deadly thing, it
will not hurt them; they will lay
hands on the sick, and they will
recover.”
So then, after the Lord had spoken
to them, He was received up
into heaven, and sat down at the
right hand of God.
And they went out and
preached everywhere, the Lord
working with them and confi rming
the word through the signs
following them. Amen.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
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CHAPTER
In as much as many have taken
in hand to arrange in order a declaration
of those things which are
most surely believed among us,
just as those who from the
beginning were eyewitnesses and
ministers of the word delivered
them to us,
it seemed good to me also, having
had perfect understanding of
all things from the very fi rst, to
write to you in order, most excellent
Theophilus,
that you may know the certainty
of those things in which you were
instructed.
There was in the days of Herod,
the king of Judea, a certain priest
named Zacharias, of the division
of Abijah, and his wife was of the
daughters of Aaron, and her name
was Elizabeth.
And they were both righteous
before God, walking in all the
commandments and ordinances
of the Lord blameless.
But they had no child, because
Elizabeth was barren, and they
were both now well advanced in
years.
So it came to pass, that while he
was serving in the priest’s offi ce
before God in the order of his
division,
according to the custom of the
priesthood, his lot fell to burn
incense when he went into the
temple of the Lord.
And the entire crowd of the
people were praying outside at
the time of incense.
Then an angel of the Lord
appeared to him, standing on the
right side of the altar of incense.
And when Zacharias saw him,
he was troubled, and fear fell
upon him.
But the angel said to him, “Do
not fear, Zacharias, because your
prayer is heard; and your wife
Elizabeth will bear you a son, and
you will call his name John.
And you will have joy and happiness
and many will rejoice at
his birth.
Because, he will be great in the
sight of the Lord and will drink
neither grape juice nor strong
drink. And he will be fi lled with
the Holy Spirit, even from his
mother’s womb.
And he will turn many of the
children of Israel to the Lord their
God.
He will also go before Him in the
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spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn
the hearts of the fathers to the children,’
and the disobedient to the
wisdom of the just, to make ready a
people prepared for the Lord.”
And Zacharias said to the angel,
“How shall I know this? Because, I
am an old man, and my wife well
advanced in years.”
And the angel answered and
said to him, “I am Gabriel, who
stands in the presence of God,
and was sent to speak to you and
to show you these glad tidings.
But behold, you will be mute
and not able to speak until the
day that these things will take
place, because you did not believe
my words which will be fulfi lled
in their own time.”
And the people waited for
Zacharias and marveled that he
lingered so long in the temple.
But when he came out, he could
not speak to them; and they perceived
that he had seen a vision in
the temple, because he beckoned
to them and remained speechless.
So it was, as soon as the days
of his service were completed, he
departed to his own house.
Now after those days his wife
Elizabeth conceived; and hid herself
fi ve months, saying,
“Thus the Lord has dealt with
me, in the days when He looked
upon me, to take away my dishonor
among men.”
Now in the sixth month the
angel Gabriel was sent from
God to a city of Galilee, named
Nazareth,
to a virgin betrothed to a man
whose name was Joseph, of the
house of David. And the virgin’s
name was Mary.
And the angel went in to her presence
and said, “Rejoice, you who are
highly favored, the Lord is with you;
blessed are you among women!”
But when she saw him, she was
troubled at his saying and considered
what manner of greeting
this was.
Then the angel said to her, “Do
not fear, Mary, because, you have
found favor with God.
And behold, you will conceive
in your womb and bring forth a
Son, and will call His name JESUS.
He will be great, and will be
called the Son of the Highest; and
the Lord God will give to Him the
throne of His father David.
And He will reign over the
house of Jacob forever, and of His
kingdom there will be no end.”
Then Mary said to the angel,
“How can this be, since I do not
know a man?”
And the angel answered and
said to her, “The Holy Spirit will
come upon you and the power of
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the Highest will overshadow you;
therefore, also, that Holy One who
will be born of you will be called
the Son of God.
Now behold, Elizabeth your relative
has also conceived a son in her
old age; and this is the sixth month
for her, who was called barren.
Because with God nothing will
be impossible.”
Then Mary said, “Behold the
maidservant of the Lord! Let it be
to me according to your word.”
And the angel departed from her.
Mary arose in those days and
hurried into the hill country, into
a city of Judah,
and entered into the house of
Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.
And it happened, when
Elizabeth heard the greeting
of Mary, the babe leaped in her
womb; and Elizabeth was fi lled
with the Holy Spirit.
And she spoke out with a loud
voice and said, “Blessed are you
among women, and blessed is the
fruit of your womb!
But why is this granted to me,
that the mother of my Lord
should come to me?
Because, indeed, as soon as the
voice of your greeting sounded in
my ears, the babe leaped in my
womb for joy.
And blessed is she who believed,
because there will be a fulfi llment
of those things which were told
her from the Lord.”
Then Mary said: “My soul magnifi
es the Lord,
and my spirit has rejoiced in
God my Savior.
Because, He has regarded the
lowly state of His maidservant;
because behold, from now on all
generations will call me blessed.
Because, He who is mighty has
done great things for me, and
holy is His name.
And His mercy is on those who
reverence Him from generation
to generation.
He has shown strength with His
arm; He has scattered the proud in
the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty
from their thrones, and exalted
the lowly.
He has fi lled the hungry with
good things, and He has sent the
rich away empty.
He has helped His servant Israel,
in remembrance of His mercy,
as He spoke to our fathers, to
Abraham and to His seed forever.”
Then Mary stayed with her
about three months, and returned
to her own house.
Now Elizabeth’s full time came
for her to be delivered, and she
brought forth a son.
And her neighbors and her relatives
heard how the Lord had
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shown great mercy on her, and
they rejoiced with her.
And so it was, on the eighth day,
they came to circumcise the child;
and they called him Zacharias,
after the name of his father.
But his mother replied and said,
“Not this; but he will be called
John.”
But they said to her, “There is
no one from your family that is
called by this name.”
So they made signs to his father,
what he would have him called.
And he asked for a writing tablet,
and wrote, saying, “His name
is John.” So they all marveled.
And immediately His mouth
was opened and his tongue loosed,
and he spoke and praised God.
Then reverence came on all
who lived around about them;
and all these sayings were discussed
throughout all the hill
country of Judea.
And all those who heard them
kept them in their hearts, saying,
“What kind of child shall this
be?” And the hand of the Lord was
with him.
Now his father Zacharias was
fi lled with the Holy Spirit, and
prophesied, saying,
“Blessed is the Lord God of
Israel, because, He has visited and
redeemed His people,
and has raised up a horn of
salvation for us in the house of his
servant David,
as He spoke by the mouth of
His holy prophets, who have been
since the world began,
that we should be saved from
our enemies and from the hand of
all who hate us,
to perform the mercy promised
to our fathers and to remember
His holy covenant,
the oath which He swore to our
father Abraham:
That He would grant to us, that
we, being delivered out of the
hand of our enemies, might serve
Him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness
before Him all the days of our life.
“And you, child, will be called the
prophet of the Highest; because,
you will go before the face of the
Lord to prepare His ways,
to give knowledge of salvation
to His people by the remission of
their sins,
through the tender mercy
of our God, with which the
Dayspring from on high has visited
us;
to give light to those who sit
in darkness and in the shadow of
death, to guide our feet into the
way of peace.”
So the child grew and became
strong in spirit, and was in
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the deserts until the day of his
appearance to Israel.
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And it came to pass in those
days that a decree went out from
Caesar Augustus that all the world
should be registered for taxation.
And this tax registrar fi rst
occurred when Quirinius was governor
of Syria.
And everyone went to be registered
for taxation, every one into
his own city.
And Joseph also went up
from Galilee, out of the city of
Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of
David, which is called Bethlehem,
because he was of the house and
lineage of David,
to be registered for taxation
with Mary, his betrothed wife,
who was large due to pregnancy.
And so it was, that while they
were there, the days were completed
for her to be delivered.
And she brought forth her fi rstborn
Son, and wrapped Him in
swaddling clothes and laid Him in
a manger, because there was no
room for them in the inn.
Now there were in the same
country shepherds staying out
in the fi eld, keeping watch over
their fl ock by night.
And behold, the angel of the
Lord came over them, and the
glory of the Lord shone around
them and they were very afraid.
Then the angel said to them,
“Do not fear, because behold, I
bring you good news of great joy,
which will be to all people.
Because, there is born to you
this day in the city of David a
Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
And this will be a sign to you: You
will fi nd the Babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes, lying in a manger.”
And suddenly there was with
the angel a multitude of the heavenly
host praising God and saying:
“Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will
toward men!”
So it was, when the angels
had gone away from them into
heaven, that the shepherds said
to each other, “Let us now travel
to Bethlehem and see this thing
that has come to pass, which the
Lord has made known to us.”
And they came quickly and
found Mary and Joseph, and the
Babe lying in a manger.
Now when they had seen Him,
they made widely known the
saying which was told them concerning
this Child.
And all those who heard it marveled
at those things which were
told them by the shepherds.
But Mary kept all these things
and pondered them in her heart.
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Then the shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God for
all the things that they had heard
and seen, as it was told to them.
And when eight days were
completed for the circumcision
of the Child, His name was called
JESUS, the name given by the
angel before He was conceived in
the womb.
When the days of her purifi cation
according to the law of Moses
were completed, they brought
Him to Jerusalem to present Him
to the Lord
(as it is written in the law of
the Lord, “Every male who opens
the womb shall be called holy to
the LORD”),
and to off er a sacrifi ce according
to that which is said in the law
of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves
or two young pigeons.”
And behold, there was a man
in Jerusalem, whose name was
Simeon, and this man was just
and devout, waiting for the
Consolation of Israel, and the
Holy Spirit was upon him.
And it had been revealed to him
by the Holy Spirit that he should
not see death before he had seen
the Lord’s Christ.
So he came by the Spirit into
the temple. And when the parents
brought in the Child Jesus, to do for
Him after the custom of the law,
then he took Him up in his arms
and blessed God and said:
“Lord, now let Your servant
depart in peace, according to
Your word;
Because, my eyes have seen
Your salvation
which You have prepared
before the face of all people,
A light to bring revelation to
the Gentiles, and the glory of
Your people Israel.”
And Joseph and His mother
marveled at those things which
were spoken about Him.
Then Simeon blessed them, and
said to Mary His mother, “Behold,
this Child is destined for the fall and
rising of many in Israel, and for a
sign which will be spoken against
(yes, a sword will pierce
through your own soul also), that
the thoughts of many hearts may
be revealed.”
Now there was one, Anna,
a prophetess, the daughter of
Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She
was very old and had lived with
a husband seven years from her
virginity;
and she was a widow of about
eighty four years, who did not
depart from the temple, but
served God with fastings and
prayers night and day.
And coming in that instant
she also gave thanks likewise to
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the Lord, and spoke of Him to all
those who looked for redemption
in Jerusalem.
So when they had performed
all things according to the law of
the Lord, they returned to Galilee,
to their own city Nazareth.
And the Child grew and became
strong in spirit, fi lled with wisdom;
and the grace of God was
upon Him.
Now His parents went to
Jerusalem every year at the Feast
of the Passover.
And when He was twelve years
old, they went up to Jerusalem
according to the custom of the
feast.
When they had fulfi lled the
days, as they returned, the Child
Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem.
And Joseph and His mother did
not know about it;
but supposing Him to have
been in the company, they went
a day’s journey, and they sought
Him among their relatives and
acquaintances.
So when they did not fi nd Him,
they returned to Jerusalem, seeking
Him.
Now it happened that after
three days they found Him in the
temple, sitting in the midst of the
teachers, both listening to them
and asking them questions.
All who heard Him were
astonished at His understanding
and answers.
So when they saw Him, they
were amazed; and His mother
said to Him, “Son, why have
you done this to us? Look, Your
father and I have sought You
desperately.”
He said to them, “Why did
you seek Me? Did you not know
that I must be about My Father’s
business?”
But they did not understand the
statement which He spoke to them.
Then He went down with them
and came to Nazareth, and was
subject to them, but His mother
kept all these sayings in her heart.
And Jesus increased in wisdom
and stature, and in favor with God
and men.
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Now in the fi fteenth year of the
reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius
Pilate being governor of Judea,
Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,
his brother Philip tetrarch of
Ituraea and of the region of
Trachonitis, and Lysanias the
tetrarch of Abilene,
Annas and Caiaphas being the
high priests, the word of God
came to John the son of Zacharias
in the wilderness.
And he went into all the region
around Jordan, preaching a
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baptism of repentance for the
remission of sins,
as it is written in the book of the
words of Isaiah the prophet, saying:
“The voice of one shouting in
the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of
the LORD; make His paths straight.
Every valley will be fi lled and
every mountain and hill will be
brought low; and the crooked
place will be made straight and the
rough ways will be made smooth;
And all fl esh will see the salvation
of God.’”
Then he said to the crowds that
came out to be baptized by him,
“O generation of vipers, who
warned you to fl ee from the wrath
to come?
Therefore bear fruits worthy of
repentance, and do not begin to
say within yourselves, ‘We have
Abraham as our father.’ Because I
say to you that God is able to raise
up children to Abraham from
these stones.
And even now the axe is laid to
the root of the trees. Therefore
every tree which does not bear
good fruit is cut down and thrown
into the fi re.”
So the people asked him, saying,
“What shall we do then?”
He answered and said to them,
“He who has two coats, let him
give to him who has none; and he
who has food, let him do likewise.”
Then tax collectors also came
to be baptized, and said to him,
“Teacher, what shall we do?”
And he said to them, “Collect
no more than that which is
appointed to you.”
Likewise the soldiers demanded
of him, saying, “And what shall we
do?” So he said to them, “Do not
be violent to anyone, nor accuse
anyone falsely, and be content
with your wages.”
Now as the people were in
expectation, and everyone reasoned
in their hearts about John,
whether he was the Christ or not,
John responded, saying to them
all, “I indeed baptize you with
water; but One mightier than I is
coming, whose sandal strap I am
not worthy to loose. He will baptize
you with the Holy Spirit and
with fi re.
His winnowing fan is in His
hand and He will thoroughly
clean out His threshing fl oor, and
gather His wheat into His storehouse;
but the chaff He will burn
with unquenchable fi re.”
And with many other things in
His exhortation he preached to
the people.
But Herod the tetrarch, being
rebuked by him concerning
Herodias, his brother Philip’s
wife, and for all the evils which
Herod had done,
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also added this, above all, that
he shut up John in prison.
Now when all the people were
baptized, it came to pass that
Jesus was baptized also; and while
praying, the heaven was opened.
And the Holy Spirit descended
in bodily form like a dove upon
Him, and a voice came from
heaven which said, “You are My
beloved Son; in You I am well
pleased.”
So Jesus Himself began to be
about thirty years of age, being
(as was supposed) the son of
Joseph, who was the son of Heli,
who was the son of Matthat, who
was the son of Levi, who was the
son of Melchi, who was the son of
Janna, who was the son of Joseph,
who was the son of Mattathiah,
who was the son of Amos, who was
the son of Nahum, who was the son
of Esli, who was the son of Naggai,
who was the son of Maath, who
was the son of Mattathiah, who was
the son of Semei, who was the son of
Joseph, who was the son of Judah,
who was the son of Joannas, who
was the son of Rhesa, who was the
son of Zerubbabel, who was the
son of Shealtiel, who was the son
of Neri,
who was the son of Melchi, who
was the son of Addi, who was the
son of Cosam, who was the son of
Elmodam, who was the son of Er,
who was the son of Jose, who
was the son of Eliezer, who was the
son of Jorim, who was the son of
Matthat, who was the son of Levi,
who was the son of Simeon, who
was the son of Judah, who was the
son of Joseph, who was the son of
Jonan, who was the son of Eliakim,
who was the son of Melea, who
was the son of Menan, who was the
son of Mattathah, who was the son
of Nathan, the son of David,
who was the son of Jesse, who was
the son of Obed, who was the son of
Boaz, who was the son of Salmon,
who was the son of Nahshon,
who was the son of Amminadab,
who was the son of Ram, who was
the son of Hezron, who was the son
of Perez, who was the son of Judah,
who was the son of Jacob, who
was the son of Isaac, who was the
son of Abraham, who was the son of
Terah, who was the son of Nahor,
who was the son of Serug, who
was the son of Reu, who was the son
of Peleg, who was the son of Eber,
who was the son of Shelah,
who was the son of Cainan, who
was the son of Arphaxad, who was
the son of Shem, who was the son of
Noah, who was the son of Lamech,
who was the son of Methuselah,
who was the son of Enoch, who
was the son of Jared, who was the
son of Mahalalel, who was the son
of Cainan,
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who was the son of Enosh, who
was the son of Seth, who was the son
of Adam, who was the son of God.
CHAPTER
Then Jesus, being fi lled with the
Holy Spirit, returned from the
Jordan and was led by the Spirit
into the wilderness,
being tempted forty days by
the devil. And in those days He
ate nothing, and when they had
ended, afterward He was hungry.
And the devil said to Him, “If
You are the Son of God, command
this stone to become bread.”
But Jesus replied to him, saying,
“It is written that, ‘Man will not
live by bread alone, but by every
word of God.’”
Then the devil, taking Him up
on a high mountain, showed Him
all the kingdoms of the world in a
moment of time.
And the devil said to Him, “I will
give You all this authority, and
their glory; because, this has been
delivered to me and I give it to
whomever I wish.
Therefore, if You will worship
me, all will be Yours.”
And Jesus answered and said
to him, “Get behind Me, Satan!
Because, it is written, ‘You shall
worship the LORD your God, and
Him only shall you serve.’”
Then he brought Him to
Jerusalem, set Him on a pinnacle
of the temple, and said to Him,
“If You are the Son of God, throw
Yourself down from here.
Because, it is written: ‘He will
give His angels orders concerning
you, to protect You,’
and, ‘In their hands they will
hold You up, lest at any time You
dash Your foot against a stone.’”
And Jesus responding said to
him, “It has been said, ‘You shall
not tempt the LORD your God.’”
Now when the devil had ended
every temptation, he departed
from Him for a season.
Then Jesus returned in the power
of the Spirit into Galilee, and there
His fame went out through all the
surrounding region.
And He taught in their synagogues,
being glorifi ed by all.
So He came to Nazareth, where
He had been brought up. And as
His custom was, He went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day,
and stood up to read.
And He was handed the book of
the prophet Isaiah. And when He
had opened the book, He found
the place where it was written:
“The Spirit of the LORD is upon
Me, because He has anointed Me
to preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to
the captives and recovery of sight
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to the blind, to set at liberty those
who are oppressed;
to proclaim the acceptable year
of the LORD.”
Then He closed the book, and
He gave it back to the attendant
and sat down. And the eyes of
everyone who was in the synagogue
were fi xed upon Him.
And He began to say to them,
“Today this Scripture is fulfi lled
in your ears.”
So all bore witness to Him,
and marveled at the gracious
words which proceeded out of His
mouth. And they said, “Is this not
Joseph’s son?”
Then He said to them, “You
will surely say this proverb to
Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself!
Whatever we have heard done in
Capernaum, do also here in Your
country.’”
And He said, “Truly, I say to
you, no prophet is accepted in his
own country.
But I tell you truly, many widows
were in Israel in the days of
Elijah, when the heaven was shut
up three years and six months,
and there was a huge famine
throughout all the land;
but Elijah was sent to none of
them, except to Zarephath, in the
region of Sidon, to a woman who
was a widow.
And many lepers were in Israel
in the time of Elisha the prophet,
and none of them was cleansed
except Naaman the Syrian.”
So all those in the synagogue,
when they heard these things,
were fi lled with wrath,
and rose up and thrust Him out
of the city; and they led Him to
the brow of the hill on which their
city was built, that they might
throw Him down over the cliff .
But passing through the midst
of them He went His way,
and went down to Capernaum,
a city of Galilee, and taught them
on the Sabbath days.
And they were astonished at
His doctrine, because His word
was with authority.
Now in the synagogue there
was a man who had a spirit of an
unclean demon. And he shouted
out with a loud voice,
saying, “Leave us alone! What
have we to do with You, You Jesus
of Nazareth? Did you come to
destroy us? I know who You are,
the Holy One of God!”
But Jesus rebuked him, saying,
“Be quiet and come out of him!”
And when the demon had thrown
him in the midst, it came out of
him and did not hurt him.
Then they were all amazed and
spoke among themselves, saying,
“What a word this is! Because,
with authority and power He
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commands the unclean spirits
and they come out.”
And His fame went out into every
place in the surrounding region.
Now He arose from the synagogue
and entered into Simon’s
house. But Simon’s wife’s mother
was sick with a high fever and
they made request of Him concerning
her.
So He stood over her and
rebuked the fever, and it left her.
And immediately she arose and
served them.
Now when the sun was setting,
all those who had any that
were sick with various diseases
brought them to Him; and He laid
His hands on every one of them
and healed them.
And demons also came out of
many, shouting out and saying,
“You are Christ, the Son of God!”
And He, rebuking them, did not
permit them to speak, because
they knew that He was Christ.
Now when it was day, He
departed and went into a deserted
place. And the people sought Him
and came to Him and tried to keep
Him from leaving them;
but He said to them, “I must
preach the kingdom of God to
other cities also, because for this
purpose I have been sent.”
And He preached in the synagogues
of Galilee.
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And it happened, as the people
pressed about Him to hear the
word of God, that He stood by the
Lake of Gennesaret,
and saw two boats standing by
the lake; but the fi shermen had
gone from them and were washing
their nets.
Then He got into one of the
boats, which was Simon’s, and
asked him to put out a little from
the land. And He sat down and
taught the people from the boat.
Now when He had stopped
speaking, He said to Simon,
“Launch out into the deep and let
down your nets for a catch.”
But Simon replied and said to
Him, “Master, we have toiled all
night and have taken nothing;
nevertheless at Your word I will
let down the net.”
And when they had done this,
they caught a great number of
fi sh, and their net was breaking.
So they signaled to their partners,
who were in the other boat,
that they should come and help
them. And they came and fi lled
both the boats, so that they began
to sink.
When Simon Peter saw it, he
fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying,
“Depart from me, because I am a
sinful man, O Lord!”
Because, he and all who were
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with him were astonished at the
catch of fi sh which they had taken;
and so also were James and John,
the sons of Zebedee, who were
partners with Simon. And Jesus
said to Simon, “Do not be afraid.
From now on you will catch men.”
So when they had brought their
boats to land, they forsook everything
and followed Him.
And it happened when He was
in a certain city, that behold, a
man who was full of leprosy seeing
Jesus, fell on his face and implored
Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing,
You can make me clean.”
Then He put out His hand
and touched him, saying, “I am
willing; be cleansed.” And immediately
the leprosy left him.
And He commanded him to tell
no one, “But go and show yourself
to the priest, and make an
off ering for your cleansing, as a
testimony to them, just as Moses
commanded.”
However, the fame went around
concerning Him all the more; and
large crowds came together to
hear, and to be healed by Him of
their infi rmities.
And He withdrew Himself into
the wilderness and prayed.
Now it happened on a certain
day, as He was teaching, that
there were Pharisees and teachers
of the law sitting by, who had
come out of every town of Galilee,
Judea, and Jerusalem. And the
power of the Lord was present to
heal them.
Then behold, men brought on
a bed a man who was paralyzed,
whom they sought a way to bring
in and lay him before Him.
And when they could not fi nd
how they might bring him in,
because of the crowd, they went
up on the housetop and let him
down with his bed through the
tiling into the midst before Jesus.
And when He saw their faith,
He said to him, “Man, your sins
are forgiven you.”
And the scribes and the
Pharisees began to reason, saying,
“Who is this who speaks blasphemies?
Who can forgive sins but
God alone?”
But when Jesus perceived their
thoughts, He responded and said
to them, “Why are you reasoning
in your hearts?
Which is easier, to say, ‘Your
sins are forgiven you,’ or to say,
‘Rise up and walk’?
But that you may know that the
Son of Man has authority on earth
to forgive sins,” He said to the
man who was paralyzed, “I say to
you, arise, take up your bed, and
go to your house.”
And immediately he rose up
before them, took up what he had
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been lying on, and departed to his
own house, glorifying God.
And they were all amazed, and
they glorifi ed God and were fi lled
with reverence, saying, “We have
seen strange things today!”
And after these things He went
out and saw a tax collector named
Levi, sitting at the tax offi ce. And
He said to him, “Follow Me.”
So he left everything, rose up,
and followed Him.
Then Levi made Him a large
feast in his own house. And there
were a large number of tax collectors
and others who sat down
with them.
And their scribes and the
Pharisees complained against His
disciples, saying, “Why do You eat
and drink with tax collectors and
sinners?”
And Jesus answering said to
them, “Those who are well have
no need of a physician, but those
who are sick.
I have not come to call the righteous,
but sinners, to repentance.”
Then they said to Him, “Why
do the disciples of John fast often
and make prayers, and likewise
the disciples of the Pharisees, but
Yours eat and drink?”
And He said to them, “Can
you make the friends of the
bridechamber fast while the
bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come when
the bridegroom will be taken
away from them; then they will
fast in those days.”
Then He also spoke a parable to
them: “No one puts a piece from a
new garment on an old one; otherwise
the new makes a tear, and
also the piece that was taken out
of the new does not settle with
the old.
And no one puts new grape
juice into old wineskins; or else
the new grape juice will burst the
wineskins and be spilled, and the
wineskins will be ruined.
But new grape juice must be
put into new wineskins, and both
are preserved.
And also, no one having drunk
old grape juice, immediately
desires new; because he says, ‘The
old is better.’”
CHAPTER
Now it happened on the second
Sabbath after the fi rst that He
went through the grainfi elds. And
His disciples plucked the heads of
grain and ate them, rubbing them
in their hands.
And some of the Pharisees said
to them, “Why are you doing
what is not lawful to do on the
Sabbath days?”
But Jesus answering them said,
“Have you not yet read this that
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David did, when he was hungry,
he and those who were with him:
how he went into the house of
God, took and ate the showbread,
and also gave some to those with
him, which is not lawful to eat but
is only for the priests?”
And He said to them, “The Son of
Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”
Now it happened also on another
Sabbath, that He entered into the
synagogue and taught. And a man
was there whose right hand was
withered.
So the scribes and Pharisees
watched Him, whether He would
heal on the Sabbath day, that
they might fi nd an accusation
against Him.
But He knew their thoughts, and
said to the man who had the withered
hand, “Rise up and stand
here in the midst.” And he arose
and stood there.
Then Jesus said to them, “I will
ask you one thing: Is it lawful on
the Sabbath days to do good or to
do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”
And when He had looked
around at them all, He said to the
man, “Stretch out your hand.”
And he did so, and his hand was
restored as whole as the other.
But they were fi lled with madness,
and discussed with one
another what they might do to
Jesus.
Now it came to pass in those
days that He went out to the
mountain to pray, and continued
all night in prayer to God.
And when it was day, He called
His disciples to Himself; and from
them He chose twelve whom He
also named apostles:
Simon, whom He also named
Peter and Andrew his brother;
James and John; Philip and
Bartholomew;
Matthew and Thomas; James
the son of Alphaeus, and Simon
called the Zealot;
Judas the brother of James, and
Judas Iscariot who also became
the traitor.
And He came down with them
and stood on a level place with
the gathering of His disciples and
a large crowd of people from all
Judea and Jerusalem, and from
the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon,
who came to hear Him and be
healed of their diseases,
as well as those who were tormented
with unclean spirits. And
they were healed.
And the entire crowd sought to
touch Him, because power went
out from Him and healed them all.
Then He lifted up His eyes
toward His disciples, and said:
“Blessed are you poor, because
yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who hunger
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now, because you will be fi lled.
Blessed are you who weep now,
because you will laugh.
Blessed are you when men hate
you, and when they will separate
you from their company, and revile
you, and cast out your name as
evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
Rejoice in that day and leap for
joy! Because indeed, your reward
is great in heaven, because in the
same manner their fathers did to
the prophets.
“But woe to you who are rich,
because you have received your
consolation.
Woe to you who are full,
because you will hunger. Woe to
you who laugh now, because you
will mourn and weep.
Woe to you when all men speak
well of you, because so did their
fathers to the false prophets.
“But I say to you who hear: Love
your enemies, do good to those
who hate you,
bless those who curse you, and
pray for those who spitefully use
you.
And to him who strikes you on
the one cheek, off er the other also.
And from him who takes away
your cloak, do not forbid to take
your coat as well.
Give to everyone who asks of
you. And from him who takes away
your goods do not ask them back.
And just as you desire that people
should do to you, you also do
to them likewise.
“Because, if you love those who
love you, what credit is that to
you? Because even sinners love
those who love them.
And if you do good to those who
do good to you, what credit is that
to you? Because even sinners do
the same.
And if you lend to those from
whom you hope to receive
back, what credit is that to you?
Because even sinners lend to sinners
to receive as much back.
But love your enemies, do good,
and lend, hoping for nothing in
return; and your reward will be
great, and you will be the children
of the Most High. Because He is
kind to the unthankful and evil.
Therefore be merciful, just as
your Father also is merciful.
“Judge not, and you will not be
judged. Condemn not, and you
will not be condemned. Forgive,
and you will be forgiven.
Give, and it will be given to
you: good measure, pressed
down, shaken together, and running
over will men give into your
bosom. Because, with the same
measure that you use, it will be
measured back to you.”
And He spoke a parable to them:
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“Can the blind lead the blind? Will
they not both fall into the ditch?
A disciple is not above his
teacher, but everyone who is perfect
will be like his teacher.
And why do you look at the
speck in your brother’s eye, but
do not perceive the plank in your
own eye?
Or how can you say to your
brother, ‘Brother, let me remove
the speck that is in your eye,’
when you yourself do not see the
plank that is in your own eye? You
hypocrite! First remove the plank
from your own eye, and then you
will see clearly to remove the
speck that is in your brother’s eye.
“Because, a good tree does not
bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree
bear good fruit.
Because, every tree is known by
its own fruit. Because, men do not
gather fi gs from thorns, nor do
they gather grapes from a bramble
bush.
A good man out of the good
treasure of his heart brings forth
that which is good; and an evil
man out of the evil treasure of his
heart brings forth that which is
evil. Because out of the abundance
of the heart his mouth speaks.
“But why do you call Me
‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the
things that I say?
Whoever comes to Me, and
hears My sayings and does them,
I will show you whom he is like:
He is like a man who built a
house, who dug deep and laid the
foundation on the rock. And when
the fl ood arose, the stream beat
vehemently against that house,
and could not shake it, because it
was founded on a rock.
But he who heard and did nothing
is like a man who built a house
on the earth without a foundation,
against which the stream
beat vehemently; and immediately
it fell. And the ruin of that
house was great.”
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Now when He concluded all His
sayings in the hearing of the people,
He entered into Capernaum.
And a certain centurion’s servant,
who was dear to him, was
sick and ready to die.
So when he heard about Jesus,
he sent elders of the Jews to Him,
pleading with Him that He would
come and heal his servant.
And when they came to Jesus,
they begged Him earnestly, saying
that the one whom He should
do this to was deserving,
“because, he loves our nation,
and has built us a synagogue.”
Then Jesus went with them. And
when He was already not far from
the house, the centurion sent
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friends to Him, saying to Him,
“Lord, do not trouble Yourself,
because, I am not worthy that You
should enter under my roof.
Therefore I did not even think
myself worthy to come to You.
But say the word, and my servant
will be healed.
Because, I also am a man placed
under authority, having soldiers
under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’
and he goes; and to another,
‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my
servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
When Jesus heard these things,
He marveled at him, and turned
around and said to the people
that followed Him, “I say to you,
I have not found such great faith,
not even in Israel!”
And those who were sent,
returning to the house, found the
servant well who had been sick.
Now it happened, the day after,
that He went into a city called
Nain; and many of His disciples
went with Him, and many people.
And when He came near the
gate of the city, behold, a dead
man was being carried out, the
only son of his mother; and she
was a widow. And many people
from the city were with her.
And when the Lord saw her, He
had compassion on her and said
to her, “Do not weep.”
Then He came and touched the
coffi n, and those who carried him
stood still. And He said, “Young
man, I say to you, arise.”
So he who was dead sat up and
began to speak. And He presented
him to his mother.
Then reverence came upon
everyone, and they glorifi ed God,
saying that: “A great prophet has
risen up among us”; and, “God has
visited His people.”
And this report about Him went
forth throughout all Judea and all
the surrounding region.
Then the disciples of John
reported to him about all these
things.
And John, calling two of his disciples
to him, sent them to Jesus,
saying, “Are You He who should
come, or do we look for another?”
When the men had come to
Him, they said, “John the Baptist
has sent us to You, saying, ‘Are
You He who should come, or do
we look for another?’”
And that very hour He cured
many of their infi rmities, diseases,
and evil spirits; and to many
that were blind He gave sight.
So Jesus answering said to them,
“Go your way and tell John the
things you have seen and heard:
that the blind see, the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed, the deaf
hear, the dead are raised, the poor
have the gospel preached to them.
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And blessed is he who is not
off ended because of Me.”
And when the messengers of
John had departed, He began to
speak to the people concerning
John: “What did you go out into
the wilderness to see? A reed
shaken by the wind?
But what did you go out to see?
A man clothed in fi ne clothing?
Indeed those who are wear fi ne
clothes and live in luxury are in
kings’ courts.
But what did you go out to see?
A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and
much more than a prophet.
This is he of whom it is written:
‘Behold, I send My messenger
before Your face, who will prepare
Your way before You.’
Because, I say to you, among
those born of women there is not
a greater prophet than John the
Baptist; but he who is least in the
kingdom of God is greater than
him.”
And all the people who heard
Him, even the tax collectors justifi
ed God, having been baptized
with the baptism of John.
But the Pharisees and lawyers
rejected the counsel of God
regarding themselves, not having
been baptized by him.
And the Lord said, “To what
then shall I compare the men of
this generation, and to what are
they like?
They are like children sitting
in the marketplace and calling to
one another, saying: ‘We played
the fl ute for you, and you did not
dance; we mourned to you, and
you did not weep.’
Because, John the Baptist came
neither eating bread nor drinking
grape juice, and you say, ‘He
has a demon.’
The Son of Man has come
eating and drinking, and you
say, ‘Look, a glutton and a wine
drinker, a friend of tax collectors
and sinners!’
But wisdom is justifi ed by all
her children.”
Then one of the Pharisees asked
Him to eat with him. And He went
to the Pharisee’s house, and sat
down to eat.
And behold, a woman in the
city who was a sinner, when she
knew that Jesus sat at the table in
the Pharisee’s house, brought an
alabaster fl ask of fragrant oil,
and stood at His feet behind
Him weeping; and began to wash
His feet with tears, and wiped
them with the hair of her head;
and kissed His feet and anointed
them with the fragrant oil.
Now when the Pharisee who
had invited Him saw this, he spoke
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within himself, saying, “This Man,
if He were a prophet, would have
known who and what manner
of woman this is who is touching
Him, because she is a sinner.”
And Jesus responded and said to
him, “Simon, I have something to
say to you.” So he said, “Teacher,
say it.”
“There was a certain creditor
who had two debtors. One owed
fi ve hundred denarii, and the
other fi fty.
And when they had nothing
with which to repay, he freely
forgave them both. Tell Me,
therefore, which of them shall
love him most?”
Simon answered and said, “I
suppose the one whom he forgave
more.” And He said to him, “You
have rightly judged.”
Then He turned to the woman
and said to Simon, “Do you see
this woman? I entered into your
house; you gave Me no water for
My feet, but she has washed My
feet with her tears and wiped
them with the hairs of her head.
You gave Me no kiss, but this
woman has not ceased to kiss My
feet since the time I came in.
You did not anoint My head with
oil, but this woman has anointed
My feet with fragrant oil.
Therefore I say to you, her sins,
which are many, are forgiven,
because she loved much. But to
whom little is forgiven, the same
loves little.”
Then He said to her, “Your sins
are forgiven.”
And those who sat at the table
with Him began to say to themselves,
“Who is this who also
forgives sins?”
Then He said to the woman,
“Your faith has saved you. Go in
peace.”
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Now it came to pass afterward,
that He went through every
city and village, preaching and
showing the glad tidings of the
kingdom of God. And the twelve
were with Him,
and certain women who had been
healed of evil spirits and infi rmities;
Mary called Magdalene, out of
whom had come seven demons,
and Joanna the wife of Chuza,
Herod’s steward, and Susanna,
and many others who provided
for Him from their substance.
And when many people had
gathered together, and they had
come to Him from every city, He
spoke by a parable:
“A sower went out to sow his
seed. And as he sowed, some fell
by the wayside; and it was trampled
down, and the birds of the air
devoured it.
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And some fell on a rock; and as
soon as it sprang up, it withered
away because it lacked moisture.
And some fell among thorns,
and the thorns sprang up with it
and choked it.
But others fell on good ground,
sprang up, and yielded a crop a
hundredfold.” And when He had
said these things He shouted, “He
who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
Then His disciples asked Him,
saying, “What does this parable
mean?”
And He said, “To you it has been
given to know the mysteries of the
kingdom of God, but to the others
in parables, that ‘Seeing they may
not see, and hearing they may not
understand.’
“Now the parable is this: The
seed is the word of God.
Those by the wayside are the
ones who hear; then the devil
comes and takes away the word
out of their hearts, lest they
should believe and be saved.
The ones on the rock are those
who, when they hear, receive the
word with joy; but these have no
root, who believe for a while and
in time of temptation fall away.
Now the ones that fell among
thorns are those who, when they
have heard, go out and are choked
with cares, riches, and pleasures
of this life, and bring no fruit to
maturity.
But those on the good ground
are those who, having heard the
word with an honest and good
heart, keep it and bear fruit with
patience.
“No one, when he has lit a lamp,
covers it with a vessel or puts it
under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand,
that those who enter in
may see the light.
Because, nothing is secret that
will not be revealed, nor anything
hidden that will not be known
and come to light.
Therefore take heed how you
hear. Because, whoever has, to him
more will be given; and whoever
does not have, even what he seems
to have will be taken from him.”
Then His mother and brethren
came to Him, and could not
approach Him because of the
crowd.
And it was told Him by some,
who said, “Your mother and Your
brethren are standing outside,
desiring to see You.”
But He replied and said to them,
“My mother and My brethren are
these who hear the word of God
and do it.”
Now it happened, on a certain
day, that He got into a boat
with His disciples. And He said
to them, “Let us cross over to the
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other side of the lake.” And they
launched out.
But as they sailed He fell asleep.
And a windstorm came down on
the lake, and they were fi lling
with water, and were in jeopardy.
And they came to Him and
awoke Him, saying, “Master,
Master, we are perishing!” Then
He arose and rebuked the wind
and the raging of the water. And
they ceased, and there was a calm.
And He said to them, “Where is
your faith?” But they being afraid
marveled, saying to one another,
“What kind of man is this? Because,
He commands even the winds and
water, and they obey Him!”
Then they arrived at the country
of the Gadarenes, which is
opposite Galilee.
And when He went out on the
land, there met Him a certain man
from the city who had demons
for a long time and he wore no
clothes, nor did he live in a house
but in the tombs.
When he saw Jesus, he yelled
out, fell down before Him, and
with a loud voice said, “What have
I to do with You, Jesus, You Son of
the Most High God? I beg You, do
not torment me!”
Because, He had commanded
the unclean spirit to come out
of the man. Because, it had often
seized him, and he was kept under
guard, bound with chains and
shackles; and he broke the bonds
and was driven by the demon into
the wilderness.
Jesus asked him, saying, “What
is your name?” And he said,
“Legion,” because many demons
had entered him.
And they begged Him that He
would not command them to go
out into the abyss.
Now a herd of many swine was
feeding there on the mountain. So
they begged Him that He would
permit them to enter them. And
He permitted them.
Then the demons went out of
the man and entered the swine,
and the herd ran violently down
a steep place into the lake and
drowned.
When those who fed them saw
what had happened, they fl ed and
told it in the city and in the country.
Then they went out to see what
had happened, and came to Jesus,
and found the man from whom the
demons had departed, sitting at
the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his
right mind. And they were afraid.
They also who had seen it told
them by what means he who had
been demon possessed was healed.
Then the entire population of
the surrounding region of the
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Gadarenes begged Him to depart
from them, because they were
seized with great fear. And He
got into the boat and returned
back again.
Now the man from whom the
demons had departed begged
Him that he might be with Him.
But Jesus sent him away, saying,
“Return to your own house, and
show what great things God has
done for you.” And he went his
way and proclaimed throughout
the entire city what great things
Jesus had done for him.
And it came to pass, when Jesus
returned, that the people welcomed
Him gladly, because they
were all waiting for Him.
And behold, there came a man
named Jairus, and he was a ruler of
the synagogue. And he fell down
at Jesus’ feet and begged Him that
He would come to his house,
because, he had an only daughter
about twelve years of age, and
she was dying. But as He went, the
people swarmed Him.
Now a woman, having a fl ow
of blood for twelve years, who
had spent all her livelihood on
physicians and could not be
healed by any,
came behind Him and touched
the edge of His clothes. And
immediately her fl ow of blood
stopped.
And Jesus said, “Who touched
Me?” When all denied it, Peter
and those with him said, “Master,
the crowds swarm and press You,
and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”
But Jesus said, “Somebody
touched Me, because I perceive
power has gone out from Me.”
Now when the woman saw
that she was not hidden, she
came trembling; and falling down
before Him, she declared to Him
before all the people the reason
she had touched Him and how she
was healed immediately.
And He said to her, “Daughter,
be of good cheer; your faith has
made you well. Go in peace.”
While He was still speaking,
someone came from the ruler of
the synagogue’s house, saying to
him, “Your daughter is dead. Do
not trouble the Teacher.”
But when Jesus heard it, He
responded to him, saying, “Do not
be afraid; only believe, and she
will be made well.”
And when He came into the
house, He permitted no one to go in
except Peter, James, and John, and
the father and mother of the girl.
Now all wept and mourned for
her; but He said, “Do not weep;
she is not dead, but sleeping.”
And they ridiculed Him, knowing
that she was dead.
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But He put them all outside,
took her by the hand and called,
saying, “Little girl, arise.”
Then her spirit returned, and
she arose immediately. And He
commanded that she be given
food to eat.
And her parents were astonished,
but He commanded them
that they should tell no one what
had happened.
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Then He called His twelve disciples
together and gave them
power and authority over all
demons, and to cure diseases.
And He sent them to preach
the kingdom of God and to heal
the sick.
And He said to them, “Take nothing
for your journey, neither staff s
nor bag nor bread nor money; and
do not have two coats each.
“Whatever house you enter into,
stay there, and from there depart.
And whoever will not receive
you, when you go out of that city,
shake off the very dust from your
feet as a testimony against them.”
So they departed and went
through the towns, preaching the
gospel and healing everywhere.
Now Herod the tetrarch heard
of all that was done by Him; and
he was perplexed, because it was
said by some that John had risen
from the dead,
and by some that Elijah had
appeared, and by others that one
of the old prophets had risen
again.
And Herod said, “John I have
beheaded, but who is this of
whom I hear such things?” So he
desired to see Him.
And the apostles, when they
had returned, told Him all that
they had done. Then He took
them and went aside privately
into a deserted place belonging to
the city called Bethsaida.
But when the people knew
it, they followed Him; and He
received them and spoke to them
about the kingdom of God, and
healed those who had need of
healing.
And when the day began to wear
away, then the twelve came and
said to Him, “Send the crowd away,
that they may go into the surrounding
towns and country, and
lodge and get provisions; because
we are in a deserted place here.”
But He said to them, “You give
them something to eat.” And they
said, “We have no more than fi ve
loaves and two fi sh, unless we
should go and buy food for all
these people.”
Because, there were about
fi ve thousand men. Then He said
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to His disciples, “Make them sit
down in groups of fi fty.”
And they did so, and made them
all sit down.
Then He took the fi ve loaves
and the two fi sh, and looking up
to heaven, He blessed and broke
them, and gave them to the disciples
to set before the crowds.
So they ate and were all fi lled,
and twelve baskets of the leftover
fragments were taken up by them.
And it happened, as He was
alone praying, that His disciples
were with Him, and He asked
them, saying, “Who do the people
say that I am?”
They answered and said, “John
the Baptist, but some say Elijah;
and others say that one of the old
prophets has risen again.”
He said to them, “But who do
you say that I am?” Peter answered
and said, “The Christ of God.”
And He strictly warned and
commanded them to tell this thing
to no one,
saying, “The Son of Man
must suff er many things, and be
rejected by the elders and chief
priests and scribes, and be killed,
and be raised the third day.”
Then He said to them all, “If
anyone desires to come after Me,
let him deny himself, and take up
his cross daily, and follow Me.
Because, whoever desires to
save his life will lose it, but whoever
loses his life for My sake will
save it.
Because, what profi t is it to a
man if he gains the entire world,
and is himself thrown away or lost?
Because, whoever is ashamed
of Me and of My words, of him the
Son of Man will be ashamed when
He comes in His own glory, and in
His Father’s, and of the holy angels.
But I tell you truly, there are
some standing here who will not
taste death until they see the
kingdom of God.”
Now it came to pass, about eight
days after these sayings, that He
took Peter, John, and James and
went up on the mountain to pray.
As He prayed, the appearance
of His face was altered, and His
robe became white and glistening.
And behold, two men talked with
Him, who were Moses and Elijah,
who appeared in glory and
spoke of His decease which He was
about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
But Peter and those with him
were heavy with sleep; and when
they were awake, they saw His
glory and the two men who stood
with Him.
Then it happened, as they were
parting from Him, that Peter said
to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us
to be here; and let us make three
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tabernacles: one for You, one for
Moses, and one for Elijah,” not
knowing what he said.
While he was saying this, a
cloud came and overshadowed
them; and they were fearful as
they entered the cloud.
And a voice came out of the
cloud, saying, “This is My beloved
Son. Hear Him!”
When the voice had ceased,
Jesus was found alone. But they
kept quiet, and told no one in
those days any of the things that
they had seen.
Now it happened on the next
day, when they had come down
from the mountain, that a large
crowd met Him.
Suddenly a man from the crowd
shouted out, saying, “Teacher, I
implore You, look on my son, as
he is my only child.
And behold, a spirit seizes him,
and he suddenly yells out; it convulses
him so that he foams at the
mouth; and it departs from him
with great diffi culty, bruising him.
So I implored Your disciples to
cast it out, but they could not.”
Then Jesus responded and said,
“O faithless and perverse generation,
how long shall I be with you
and bear with you? Bring your
son here.”
And as he was still coming,
the demon threw him down
and convulsed him. Then Jesus
rebuked the unclean spirit, healed
the child, and gave him back to his
father.
And they were all amazed at the
mighty power of God. But while
everyone marveled at all the
things which Jesus did, He said to
His disciples,
“Let these words sink down
into your ears, because the Son of
Man is about to be delivered into
the hands of men.”
But they did not understand
this saying, and it was hidden
from them so that they did not
perceive it; and they were afraid
to ask Him about this saying.
Then a dispute arose among
them as to which of them would
be greatest.
And Jesus, perceiving the
thought of their heart, took a little
child and set him by Him,
and said to them, “Whoever
receives this little child in My
name receives Me; and whoever
receives Me receives Him who
sent Me. Because he who is least
among you all, they will be great.”
Now John responded and said,
“Master, we saw someone casting
out demons in Your name, and we
forbade him because he does not
follow with us.”
But Jesus said to him, “Do not
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forbid him, because he who is not
against us is for us.”
Now it came to pass, when
the time had come for Him to be
received up, that He steadfastly
set His face to go to Jerusalem,
and sent messengers before
His face. And as they went, they
entered into a village of the
Samaritans, to prepare for Him.
But they did not receive Him,
because His face was set for the
journey to Jerusalem.
And when His disciples James
and John saw this, they said, “Lord,
do You want us to command fi re
to come down from heaven and
consume them, just as Elijah did?”
But He turned and rebuked
them, and said, “You do not know
what manner of spirit you are of.
Because, the Son of Man did not
come to destroy men’s lives but
to save them.” And they went to
another village.
Now it happened as they journeyed
on the road, that someone
said to Him, “Lord, I will follow
You wherever You go.”
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes
have holes and birds of the air
have nests, but the Son of Man has
nowhere to lay His head.”
Then He said to another, “Follow
Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me
fi rst go and bury my father.”
Jesus said to him, “Let the dead
bury their own dead, but you go
and preach the kingdom of God.”
And another also said, “Lord, I
will follow You, but let me fi rst go
and say farewell to those who are
at my house.”
But Jesus said to him, “No one,
having put his hand to the plow,
and looking back, is fi t for the
kingdom of God.”
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After these things the Lord
appointed seventy others also,
and sent them two by two before
His face into every city and place
where He Himself was about to go.
Then He said to them, “The
harvest is truly plentiful, but the
laborers are few; therefore pray
the Lord of the harvest that He
would send out laborers into His
harvest.
Go your way; behold, I send you
out as lambs among wolves.
Carry neither money bag, knapsack,
nor sandals; and greet no
one along the road.
But whatever house you enter
into, fi rst say, ‘Peace be to this
house.’
And if a son of peace is there,
your peace will rest upon it; if not,
it will return to you again.
And remain in the same house,
eating and drinking such things
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as they give, because the laborer
is worthy of his wages. Do not go
from house to house.
And whatever city you enter
into, and they receive you, eat
such things as are set before you.
And heal the sick there, and say
to them, ‘The kingdom of God has
come near to you.’
But whatever city you enter
into, and they do not receive you,
go your way out into the streets of
it and say,
‘The very dust of your city
which clings to us we wipe off
against you. Nevertheless be sure
of this, that the kingdom of God
has come near to you.’
But I say to you that it will be
more tolerable in that Day for
Sodom than for that city.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe
to you, Bethsaida! Because, if the
mighty works which were done
in you had been done in Tyre and
Sidon, they would have repented
long ago, sitting in sackcloth and
ashes.
But it will be more tolerable for
Tyre and Sidon at the judgment
than for you.
And you, Capernaum, who are
exalted to heaven, will be thrown
down to hell.
He who hears you hears Me, he
who rejects you rejects Me, and
he who rejects Me rejects Him
who sent Me.”
Then the seventy returned
again with joy, saying, “Lord, even
the demons are subject to us in
Your name.”
And He said to them, “I saw
Satan fall like lightning from
heaven.
Behold, I give you the authority
to tread on serpents and scorpions,
and over all the power of the
enemy, and nothing will by any
means hurt you.
Nevertheless do not rejoice in
this, that the spirits are subject
to you, but rather rejoice because
your names are written in heaven.”
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in
spirit and said, “I thank You, O
Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that You have hidden these things
from the wise and prudent and
revealed them to babes. Even so,
Father, because so it seemed good
in Your sight.
All things have been delivered
to Me by My Father, and no one
knows who the Son is except
the Father, and who the Father
is except the Son, and the one to
whom the Son wills to reveal
Him.”
Then He turned to His disciples
and said privately, “Blessed are
the eyes which see the things that
you see;
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because I tell you that many
prophets and kings have desired
to see these things which you see,
and have not seen them, and to
hear these things which you hear,
and have not heard them.”
And behold, a certain lawyer
stood up and tested Him, saying,
“Teacher, what shall I do to
inherit eternal life?”
He said to him, “What is written
in the law? What is your reading
of it?”
So he answered and said, “‘You
shall love the LORD your God with
all your heart, with all your soul,
with all your strength, and with
all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor
as yourself.’”
And He said to him, “You have
answered rightly; do this and you
will live.”
But he, wanting to justify himself,
said to Jesus, “And who is my
neighbor?”
Then Jesus answering said:
“A certain man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell
among thieves, who stripped him
of his clothing, wounded him, and
departed, leaving him half dead.
Now by chance a certain priest
came down that road. And when
he saw him, he passed by on the
other side.
And likewise a Levite, when he
arrived at the place, came and
looked at him, and passed by on
the other side.
But a certain Samaritan, as he
journeyed, came where he was.
And when he saw him, he had
compassion on him.
So he went to him and bandaged
his wounds, pouring on oil
and wine; and he set him on his
own animal, brought him to an
inn, and took care of him.
On the next day, when he
departed, he took out two denarii,
gave them to the innkeeper, and
said to him, ‘Take care of him; and
whatever more you spend, when I
come again, I will repay you.’
So which of these three do you
think was neighbor to him who
fell among the thieves?”
And he said, “He who showed
mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to
him, “You go and do likewise.”
Now it happened as they went
that He entered into a certain
village; and a certain woman
named Martha welcomed Him
into her house.
And she had a sister called
Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet
and heard His word.
But Martha was distracted with
much serving, and she came to
Him and said, “Lord, do You not
care that my sister has left me to
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serve alone? Therefore tell her to
help me.”
And Jesus answered and said
to her, “Martha, Martha, you
are worried and troubled about
many things.
But one thing is needed, and
Mary has chosen that good part,
which will not be taken away
from her.”
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Now it came to pass, as He was
praying in a certain place, when
He ceased, that one of His disciples
said to Him, “Lord, teach us
to pray, as John also taught his
disciples.”
So He said to them, “When you
pray, say: Our Father who is in
heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come. Your will be
done as in heaven, so also on earth.
Give us day by day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins, because
we also forgive everyone who is
indebted to us. And do not lead
us into temptation, but deliver us
from evil.”
And He said to them, “Which of
you will have a friend, and will go
to him at midnight and say to him,
‘Friend, lend me three loaves;
because, a friend of mine has
come to me on his journey, and I
have nothing to set before him’;
and he will reply from within
and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the
door is now shut, and my children
are with me in bed; I cannot rise
and give to you’?
I say to you, though he will not
rise and give to him because he is
his friend, yet because of his persistence
he will rise and give him
as many as he needs.
“So I say to you, ask, and it will
be given to you; seek, and you
will fi nd; knock, and it will be
opened to you.
Because, everyone who asks
receives, and he who seeks
fi nds, and to him who knocks it
will be opened.
If a son shall ask for bread from
anyone of you that is a father, will
he give him a stone? Or if he asks
for a fi sh, will he give him a serpent
instead of a fi sh?
Or if he asks for an egg, will he
off er him a scorpion?
If you then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your
heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit to those who ask Him!”
And He was casting out a
demon, and it was mute. So it
was, when the demon had gone
out, that the mute spoke; and the
people marveled.
But some of them said, “He
casts out demons by Beelzebub,
the ruler of the demons.”
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Others, testing Him, sought
from Him a sign from heaven.
But He, knowing their thoughts,
said to them: “Every kingdom
divided against itself is brought
to desolation, and a house divided
against a house falls.
If Satan also is divided against
himself, how will his kingdom
stand? Because you say I cast out
demons by Beelzebub.
And if I cast out demons by
Beelzebub, by whom do your sons
cast them out? Therefore they will
be your judges.
But if I cast out demons with
the fi nger of God, surely the kingdom
of God has come upon you.
When a strong man, fully
armed, guards his own palace, his
goods are in peace.
But when a stronger than he
comes upon him and overcomes
him, he takes from him all his
armor in which he trusted, and
divides his spoils.
He who is not with Me is against
Me, and he who does not gather
with Me scatters.
“When an unclean spirit goes
out of a man, he walks through
dry places, seeking rest; and fi nding
none, he says, ‘I will return to
my house from which I came.’
And when he comes, he fi nds it
swept and put in order.
Then he goes and takes with him
seven other spirits more wicked
than himself, and they enter in and
dwell there; and the last state of
that man is worse than the fi rst.”
And it happened, as He spoke
these things, that a certain
woman from the crowd raised her
voice and said to Him, “Blessed is
the womb that bore You, and the
breasts which You have sucked!”
But He said, “Rather, blessed are
those who hear the word of God
and keep it!”
And while the people were
tightly gathered together, He
began to say, “This is an evil generation.
It seeks a sign, and no
sign will be given to it except the
sign of Jonah the prophet.
Because, as Jonah became a sign
to the Ninevites, so also the Son of
Man will be to this generation.
The queen of the South will rise
up in the judgment with the men
of this generation and condemn
them, because she came from the
ends of the earth to hear the wisdom
of Solomon; and behold, a
greater than Solomon is here.
The men of Nineveh will rise up
in the judgment with this generation
and will condemn it, because,
they repented at the preaching of
Jonah; and indeed a greater than
Jonah is here.
“No one, when he has lit a
lamp, puts it in a secret place or
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under a basket, but on a lampstand,
that those who come in
may see the light.
The lamp of the body is the
eye. Therefore, when your eye
is single, your entire body also is
full of light. But when your eye is
corrupted, your body also is full
of darkness.
Therefore take heed that the light
which is in you is not darkness.
If then your entire body is full
of light, having no part dark, the
entire body will be full of light, as
when the bright shining of a lamp
gives you light.”
And as He spoke, a certain
Pharisee asked Him to dine with
him. So He went in and sat down
to eat.
And when the Pharisee saw it,
he marveled that He had not fi rst
washed before dinner.
Then the Lord said to him, “Now
you Pharisees make the outside of
the cup and dish clean, but your
inward part is full of greed and
wickedness.
You fools! Did not He who made
the outside make the inside also?
But rather give charitable deeds
of such things as you have; then
indeed all things are clean to you.
“But woe to you Pharisees!
Because you tithe mint and rue
and all manner of herbs, and
pass over justice and the love of
God. These you ought to have
done, without leaving the others
undone.
Woe to you Pharisees! Because,
you love the best seats in the
synagogues and greetings in the
marketplaces.
Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! Because,
you are like graves which are not
seen, and the men who walk over
them are not aware of them.”
Then one of the lawyers
responded and said to Him,
“Teacher, by saying these things
You reproach us also.”
And He said, “Woe to you also,
you lawyers! Because, you load men
with burdens hard to bear, and you
yourselves do not touch the burdens
with one of your fi ngers.
Woe to you! Because, you build
the tombs of the prophets, and
your fathers killed them.
In fact, you bear witness that
you approve the deeds of your
fathers; because, they indeed
killed them, and you build their
tombs.
Therefore the wisdom of God
also said, ‘I will send them prophets
and apostles, and some of them
they will kill and persecute,’
that the blood of all the prophets
which was shed from the
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foundation of the world may be
required of this generation,
from the blood of Abel to the
blood of Zechariah who perished
between the altar and the temple.
Truly, I say to you, it will be
required of this generation.
“Woe to you lawyers! Because,
you have taken away the key of
knowledge. You did not enter in
yourselves, and those who were
entering in you hindered.”
And as He said these things
to them, the scribes and the
Pharisees began to contest Him
vehemently, and to provoke Him
to speak about many things,
lying in wait for Him, and seeking
to catch Him in something
out of His mouth, that they might
accuse Him.
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In the meantime, when an innumerable
multitude of people had
gathered together, so that they
trampled one another, He began
to say to His disciples fi rst of
all, “Beware of the leaven of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Because, there is nothing covered
that will not be revealed, nor
hidden that will not be known.
Therefore whatever you have
spoken in the dark will be heard
in the light, and what you have
spoken in the ear in inner rooms
will be proclaimed upon the
housetops.
“And I say to you, My friends, do
not be afraid of those who kill the
body, and after that have no more
that they can do.
But I will forewarn you whom
you should reverence: Reverence
Him who, after He has killed, has
authority to cast into hell; yes, I
say to you, reverence Him!
“Are not fi ve sparrows sold for
two copper coins? And not one of
them is forgotten before God.
But even the very hairs of your
head are all numbered. Do not
fear therefore; you are of more
value than many sparrows.
“Also I say to you, whoever
confesses Me before men, him
the Son of Man also will confess
before the angels of God.
But he who denies Me before
men will be denied before the
angels of God.
“And anyone who speaks a
word against the Son of Man, it
will be forgiven him; but to him
who blasphemes against the Holy
Spirit, it will not be forgiven.
“Now when they bring you to
the synagogues and to magistrates
and authorities, do not worry
about how or what you should
answer, or what you should say.
Because, the Holy Spirit will
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teach you in that very hour what
you ought to say.”
Then one from the company
said to Him, “Teacher, tell my
brother to divide the inheritance
with me.”
But He said to him, “Man, who
made Me a judge or an arbitrator
over you?”
And He said to them, “Take
heed and beware of covetousness,
because, one’s life does not
consist in the abundance of the
things he possesses.”
Then He spoke a parable
to them, saying: “The ground
of a certain rich man yielded
plentifully.
And he thought within himself,
saying, ‘What shall I do, since I
have no room to store my crops?’
So he said, ‘I will do this: I will
pull down my barns and build
greater, and there I will store all
my crops and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, “Soul,
you have many goods laid up for
many years; take your ease; eat,
drink, and be merry.”’
But God said to him, ‘You fool!
This night your soul will be
required of you; then whose shall
those things be which you have
provided?’
“So is he who lays up treasure
for himself, and is not rich toward
God.”
Then He said to His disciples,
“Therefore I say to you, do not
worry about your life, what you
shall eat; nor about the body,
what you shall put on.
Life is more than food, and the
body is more than clothing.
Consider the ravens, because,
they neither sow nor reap, which
have neither storehouse nor barn;
and God feeds them. Of how much
more value are you than the birds?
And which of you by worrying
can add one cubit to his stature?
If you then are not able to do
the things that are least, why are
you anxious for the rest?
Consider the lilies, how they
grow: they neither toil nor spin;
and yet I say to you, even Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these.
If then God so clothes the grass,
which today is in the fi eld and
tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
how much more will He clothe you,
O you of little faith?
“And do not seek what you
should eat or what you should
drink, nor have an anxious mind.
Because, all these things the
nations of the world seek after,
and your Father knows that you
need these things.
But instead, seek the kingdom
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of God, and all these things will be
added to you.
“Do not fear, little fl ock, because
it is your Father’s good pleasure
to give you the kingdom.
Sell what you have and give
charitable gifts; provide yourselves
money bags which do not
grow old, a treasure in the heavens
that does not fail, where
no thief approaches nor moth
destroys.
Because where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also.
“Let your waist be girded and
your lamps burning;
and you yourselves be like men
who wait for their master, when
he will return from the wedding,
that when he comes and
knocks they may open to him
immediately.
Blessed are those servants
whom the master, when he comes,
will fi nd watching. Truly, I say to
you that he will gird himself and
have them sit down to eat, and
will come out and serve them.
And if he should come in the
second watch, or come in the
third watch, and fi nd them so,
blessed are those servants.
But know this, that if the master
of the house had known what hour
the thief would come, he would
have watched and not allowed his
house to be broken into.
Therefore you also be ready,
because the Son of Man is coming
at an hour you do not expect.”
Then Peter said to Him, “Lord,
do You speak this parable only to
us, or also to everyone?”
And the Lord said, “Who then
is that faithful and wise steward,
whom his master will make ruler
over his household, to give them
their portion of food in due season?
Blessed is that servant whom
his master will fi nd so doing when
he comes.
Truly, I say to you that he will
make him ruler over all that he has.
But then, if that servant says in
his heart, ‘My master is delaying
his coming,’ and begins to beat
the male and female servants, and
to eat and drink and be drunk,
the master of that servant will
come on a day when he is not
looking for him, and at an hour
when he is not aware, and will cut
him in two and will appoint him
his portion with the unbelievers.
And that servant who knew his
master’s will, and did not prepare
himself or do according to his will,
will be beaten with many stripes.
But he who did not know, yet
committed things deserving of
stripes, will be beaten with a few
stripes. Because, to whoever much
is given, from him much will be
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required; and to whom much has
been committed by men, of him
they will ask the more.
“I came to send fi re on the
earth, and what do I desire if it
were already lit?
But I have a baptism to be baptized
with, and how distressed I
am until it is accomplished!
Do you suppose that I came to
give peace on earth? I tell you, not
at all, but rather division.
Because, from now on fi ve in
one house will be divided: three
against two, and two against three.
Father will be divided against
son and son against father,
mother against daughter and
daughter against mother, mother
in law against her daughter in law
and daughter in law against her
mother in law.”
Then He also said to the people,
“Whenever you see a cloud
rising out of the west, immediately
you say, ‘A shower is
coming’; and so it is.
And when you see the south
wind blow, you say, ‘There will be
hot weather’; and it happens.
You hypocrites! You can discern
the face of the sky and of the
earth, but how is it you do not discern
this time?
“Yes, and why, even of yourselves,
do you not judge what is right?
When you go with your adversary
to the magistrate, make
every eff ort along the way to be
delivered from him, lest he drag
you to the judge, the judge deliver
you to the offi cer, and the offi cer
throw you into prison.
I tell you, you will not depart
from there until you have paid
the very last mite.”
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There were present at that season
some who told Him about the
Galileans whose blood Pilate had
mingled with their sacrifi ces.
And Jesus replied and said to
them, “Do you suppose that these
Galileans were worse sinners than
all other Galileans, because they
suff ered such things?
I tell you, no; but unless you
repent you will all likewise perish.
Or those eighteen on whom the
tower in Siloam fell and killed
them, do you think that they were
worse sinners than all other men
who dwelt in Jerusalem?
I tell you, no; but unless you
repent you will all likewise
perish.”
He also spoke this parable: “A
certain man had a fi g tree planted
in his vineyard, and he came seeking
fruit on it and found none.
Then he said to the keeper of his
vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I
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have come seeking fruit on this fi g
tree and fi nd none. Cut it down;
why does it use up the ground?’
But he answered and said to
him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also,
until I dig around it and fertilize
it.
And if it bears fruit, well. But if
not, then after that you can cut
it down.’”
Now He was teaching in one of
the synagogues on the Sabbath.
And behold, there was a woman
who had a spirit of infi rmity eighteen
years, and was bent over and
could in no way lift herself up.
But when Jesus saw her, He
called her to Him and said to her,
“Woman, you are loosed from
your infi rmity.”
And He laid His hands on her,
and immediately she was made
straight, and glorifi ed God.
But the ruler of the synagogue
responded with indignation,
because Jesus had healed on the
Sabbath day; and he said to the
people, “There are six days on
which men ought to work; therefore
come and be healed on them,
and not on the Sabbath day.”
The Lord then replied to him
and said, “You hypocrite! Does not
each one of you on the Sabbath
loose his ox or his donkey from
the stall, and lead it away to water
it?
So ought not this woman, being
a daughter of Abraham, whom
Satan has bound, behold, for eighteen
years, be loosed from this
bond on the Sabbath day?”
And when He said these things,
all His adversaries were put to
shame; and all the people rejoiced
for all the glorious things that
were done by Him.
Then He said, “What is the
kingdom of God like? And to what
shall I compare it?
It is like a grain of mustard
seed, which a man took and threw
in his garden; and it grew and
became a large tree, and the birds
of the air nested in its branches.”
And again He said, “To what
shall I liken the kingdom of God?
It is like leaven, which a
woman took and hid three measures
of meal inside until it was
all leavened.”
And He went through the cities
and villages, teaching, and journeying
toward Jerusalem.
Then one said to Him, “Lord,
are there few who are saved?”
And He said to them,
“Strive to enter through the
narrow gate, because many, I say
to you, will seek to enter in and
will not be able.
When once the Master of the
house has risen up and shut the
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door, and you begin to stand outside
and knock at the door, saying,
‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He
will reply and say to you, ‘I do not
know you, where you are from,’
then you will begin to say,
‘We ate and drank in Your presence,
and You have taught in our
streets.’
But He will say, ‘I tell you I do
not know you, where you are
from. Depart from Me, all you
workers of iniquity.’
There will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth, when you see
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and
all the prophets in the kingdom of
God, and you yourselves thrust out.
And they will come from the
east and from the west, from the
north and from the south, and will
sit down in the kingdom of God.
And behold there are last who
will be fi rst, and there are fi rst
who will be last.”
On the same day some Pharisees
came, saying to Him, “Get out and
depart from here, because Herod
will kill You.”
And He said to them, “You go
and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast
out demons and perform cures
today and tomorrow, and the
third day I will be perfected.’
Nevertheless I must walk today,
tomorrow, and the day following;
because, it cannot be that a
prophet should perish outside of
Jerusalem.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the
one who kills the prophets and
stones those who are sent to you!
How often I wanted to gather your
children together, as a hen gathers
her brood under her wings, but
you were not willing!
Behold! Your house is left to you
desolate; and truly, I say to you,
you will not see Me until the time
comes when you will say, ‘Blessed
is He who comes in the name of
the LORD!’”
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Now it happened, as He went into
the house of one of the rulers of the
Pharisees to eat bread on the
Sabbath day, that they watched
Him.
And behold, there was a certain
man before Him who had dropsy.
And Jesus, responding, spoke to
the lawyers and Pharisees, saying,
“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath
day?”
But they kept silent. And He took
him and healed him, and let him go.
Then He responded to them,
saying, “Which of you, having a
donkey or an ox that has fallen
into a pit, will not immediately
pull him out on the Sabbath day?”
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And they could not answer Him
regarding these things.
So He told a parable to those
who were invited, when He noted
how they chose the best places,
saying to them:
“When you are invited by anyone
to a wedding feast, do not
sit down in the best place, lest
one more honorable than you be
invited by him;
and he who invited you and him
come and say to you, ‘Give place to
this man,’ and then you begin with
shame to take the lowest place.
But when you are invited, go
and sit down in the lowest place,
so that when he who invited you
comes he may say to you, ‘Friend,
go up higher.’ Then you will have
glory in the presence of those
who sit at the table with you.
Because, whoever exalts himself
will be humbled, and he who
humbles himself will be exalted.”
Then He also said to him who
invited Him, “When you give a
dinner or a supper, do not ask
your friends, your brethren, your
relatives, nor your rich neighbors,
lest they also invite you back, and
you be repaid.
But when you give a feast,
invite the poor, the maimed, the
lame, the blind.
And you will be blessed, because
they cannot repay you; because,
you will be repaid at the resurrection
of the just.”
Now when one of those who sat
at the table with Him heard these
things, he said to Him, “Blessed is
he who will eat bread in the kingdom
of God!”
Then He said to him, “A certain
man made a large supper and
invited many,
and sent his servant at supper
time to say to those who were
invited, ‘Come, because all things
are now ready.’
But they all with one accord
began to make excuses. The fi rst
said to him, ‘I have bought a piece
of ground, and I must go and see
it. I ask you to have me excused.’
And another said, ‘I have bought
fi ve yoke of oxen, and I am going
to test them. I ask you to have me
excused.’
Still another said, ‘I have married
a wife, and therefore I cannot
come.’
So that servant came and
reported these things to his master.
Then the master of the house,
being angry, said to his servant,
‘Go out quickly into the streets
and lanes of the city, and bring
in here the poor and the maimed
and the lame and the blind.’
And the servant said, ‘Master, it
is done as you have commanded,
and still there is room.’
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Then the master said to the servant,
‘Go out into the highways and
hedges, and compel them to come
in, that my house may be fi lled.
Because, I say to you that none
of those men who were invited
will taste my supper.’”
Now large crowds went with Him.
And He turned and said to them,
“If anyone comes to Me and
does not hate his father and
mother, wife and children, brothers
and sisters, yes, and his own
life also, he cannot be My disciple.
And whoever does not bear his
cross and come after Me cannot
be My disciple.
Because, which of you, intending
to build a tower, does not sit
down fi rst and count the cost,
whether he has enough to fi nish it?
Lest, after he has laid the foundation,
and is not able to fi nish it,
all who see it begin to mock him,
saying, ‘This man began to
build and was not able to fi nish.’
Or what king, going to make war
against another king, does not sit
down fi rst and consider whether
he is able with ten thousand to
meet him who comes against him
with twenty thousand?
Or else, while the other is still a
long way off , he sends a delegation
and desires conditions of peace.
So likewise, whoever it is of you
who does not forsake all that he
has cannot be My disciple.
“Salt is good; but if the salt
has lost its fl avor, how will it be
seasoned?
It is neither fi t for the land nor
for the dunghill, but men throw it
out. He who has ears to hear, let
him hear!”
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Then all the tax collectors and
the sinners drew near to Him to
hear Him.
And the Pharisees and scribes
murmured, saying, “This Man
receives sinners and eats with
them.”
So He spoke this parable to
them, saying:
“What man of you, having a
hundred sheep, if he loses one of
them, does not leave the ninety
nine in the wilderness, and go
after the one which is lost until
he fi nds it?
And when he has found it, he
lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
And when he comes home,
he calls together his friends
and neighbors, saying to them,
‘Rejoice with me, because I have
found my sheep which was lost!’
I say to you that likewise there
will be more joy in heaven over
one sinner who repents than over
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ninety nine just persons who
need no repentance.
“Or what woman, having ten
silver coins, if she loses one coin,
does not light a lamp, sweep the
house, and search diligently until
she fi nds it?
And when she has found it, she
calls her friends and her neighbors
together, saying, ‘Rejoice
with me, because I have found the
piece which I lost!’
Likewise, I say to you, there is
joy in the presence of the angels of
God over one sinner who repents.”
Then He said: “A certain man
had two sons.
And the younger of them said to
his father, ‘Father, give me the portion
of goods that falls to me.’ So
he divided to them his livelihood.
And not many days after, the
younger son gathered all together,
journeyed to a far country, and
there wasted his possessions with
riotous living.
But when he had spent everything,
there arose a severe famine
in that land, and he began to be
in need.
Then he went and joined himself
to a citizen of that country,
and he sent him into his fi elds to
feed swine.
And he would gladly have fi lled
his stomach with the pods that
the swine ate, and no one gave
anything to him.
“But when he came to himself,
he said, ‘How many of my father’s
hired servants have enough
bread and to spare, and I perish
with hunger!
I will arise and go to my father,
and will say to him, “Father, I
have sinned against heaven and
before you,
and I am no longer worthy to be
called your son. Make me like one
of your hired servants.”’
“And he arose and came to his
father. But when he was still a
long way off , his father saw him
and had compassion, and ran and
fell on his neck and kissed him.
And the son said to him, ‘Father,
I have sinned against heaven and
in your sight, and am no longer
worthy to be called your son.’
“But the father said to his servants,
‘Bring out the best robe and
put it on him, and put a ring on
his hand and sandals on his feet.
And bring the fatted calf here and
kill it, and let us eat and be merry;
because this my son was dead
and is alive again; he was lost
and is found.’ And they began to
be merry.
“Now his older son was in the
fi eld. And as he came and drew
near to the house, he heard music
and dancing.
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So he called one of the servants
and asked what these things meant.
And he said to him, ‘Your
brother has come, and because he
has received him safe and sound,
your father has killed the fatted
calf.’
“But he was angry and would
not go in. Therefore his father
came out and pleaded with him.
So he replied and said to his
father, ‘Behold, these many years
I have been serving you; I never
transgressed your commandment
at any time; and yet you
never gave me a young goat, that
I might be merry with my friends.
But as soon as this son of yours
came, who has devoured your
livelihood with harlots, you killed
the fatted calf for him.’
“And he said to him, ‘Son, you
are always with me, and all that I
have is yours.
It was right that we should
make merry and be glad, because
that your brother was dead and
is alive again, and was lost and is
found.’”
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He also said to His disciples:
“There was a certain rich man
who had a steward, and an accusation
was brought to him that
this man was wasting his goods.
So he called him and said to him,
‘What is this I hear about you?
Give an account of your stewardship,
because you can no longer
be steward.’
“Then the steward said within
himself, ‘What shall I do? Because,
my master is taking the stewardship
away from me. I cannot dig; I
am ashamed to beg.
I have resolved what to do, that
when I am put out of the stewardship,
they may receive me into
their houses.’
“So he called every one of his
master’s debtors to him, and said
to the fi rst, ‘How much do you
owe my master?’
And he said, ‘A hundred measures
of oil.’ So he said to him,
‘Take your bill, and sit down
quickly and write fi fty.’
Then he said to another, ‘And
how much do you owe?’ So he
said, ‘A hundred measures of
wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take
your bill, and write eighty.’
So the master commended the
unjust steward because he had
dealt shrewdly. Because, the sons
of this world are more shrewd in
their generation than the children
of light.
“And I say to you, make friends
for yourselves by unrighteous
mammon, that when you fail,
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they may receive you into an
everlasting home.
He who is faithful in what is
least is faithful also in much; and
he who is unjust in what is least is
unjust also in much.
Therefore if you have not been
faithful in the unrighteous mammon,
who will commit to your
trust the true riches?
And if you have not been faithful
in what is another man’s, who
will give you what is your own?
“No servant can serve two
masters; because, either he will
hate the one and love the other,
or else he will be loyal to the one
and despise the other. You cannot
serve God and mammon.”
Now the Pharisees, who were
covetous, also heard all these
things, and they derided Him.
And He said to them, “You
are those who justify yourselves
before men, but God knows your
hearts. Because, what is highly
esteemed among men is an abomination
in the sight of God.
“The law and the prophets
were until John. Since that time
the kingdom of God has been
preached, and everyone is pressing
into it.
And it is easier for heaven and
earth to pass away than for one
tittle of the law to fail.
“Whoever puts away his wife
and marries another commits
adultery; and whoever marries
her who is put away from her husband
commits adultery.
“There was a certain rich man
who was clothed in purple and fi ne
linen and lived lavishly every day.
But there was a certain beggar
named Lazarus, full of sores, who
was laid at his gate,
and desiring to be fed with the
crumbs which fell from the rich
man’s table. Moreover the dogs
came and licked his sores.
So it happened that the beggar
died, and was carried by the
angels to Abraham’s bosom. The
rich man also died and was buried.
And being in torments in Hell,
he lifted up his eyes and saw
Abraham afar off , and Lazarus in
his bosom.
“Then he cried out and said,
‘Father Abraham, have mercy on
me, and send Lazarus that he may
dip the tip of his fi nger in water
and cool my tongue; because I am
tormented in this fl ame.’
But Abraham said, ‘Son,
remember that in your lifetime
you received your good things,
and likewise Lazarus evil things;
but now he is comforted and you
are tormented.
And besides all this, between us
and you there is a great gulf fi xed,
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so that those who want to pass
from here to you cannot, nor can
those who want to come from there
pass to us.’
“Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore,
father, that you would send
him to my father’s house,
because, I have fi ve brethren,
that he may testify to them, lest
they also come to this place of
torment.’
Abraham said to him, ‘They
have Moses and the prophets; let
them hear them.’
And he said, ‘No, father
Abraham; but if one went to them
from the dead, they will repent.’
But he said to him, ‘If they do
not hear Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded
though one rise from the dead.’”
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Then He said to the disciples,
“It is impossible that no off enses
should come,
but woe to him through whom
they do come!
It would be better for him if a
millstone were hung around his
neck, and he were thrown into the
sea, than that he should off end
one of these little ones.
Take heed to yourselves. If your
brother sins against you, rebuke
him; and if he repents, forgive him.
And if he sins against you seven
times in a day, and seven times
in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I
repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
And the apostles said to the
Lord, “Increase our faith.”
But the Lord said, “If you have
faith as a mustard seed, you can
say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be
pulled up by the roots and be
planted in the sea,’ and it would
obey you.
And which of you, having a servant
plowing or feeding cattle,
shall say to him at the end when he
has come in from the fi eld, ‘Come
at once and sit down to eat’?
But will he not rather say to
him, ‘Prepare something for my
supper, and gird yourself and
serve me until I have eaten and
drunk, and afterward you will eat
and drink’?
Does he thank that servant
because he did the things that
were commanded him? I think not.
So likewise you, when you
have done all those things which
you are commanded, say, ‘We are
unprofi table servants. We have
done what was our duty to do.’”
Now it happened as He went to
Jerusalem that He passed through
the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
Then as He entered into a certain
village, there met Him ten
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men who were lepers, who stood
afar off .
And they lifted up their voices
and said, “Jesus, Master, have
mercy on us!”
So when He saw them, He said to
them, “Go, show yourselves to the
priests.” And so it was that as they
went, they were cleansed.
And one of them, when he saw
that he was healed, returned, and
with a loud voice glorifi ed God,
and fell down on his face at His
feet, giving Him thanks. And he
was a Samaritan.
So Jesus responding said, “Were
there not ten cleansed? But where
are the nine?
There are not any found who
returned to give glory to God
except this foreigner!”
And He said to him, “Arise, go
your way. Your faith has made
you well.”
Now when He was demanded
by the Pharisees when the kingdom
of God would come, He
answered them and said, “The
kingdom of God does not come
with observation;
nor will they say, ‘Look here!’ or
‘Look there!’ Because indeed, the
kingdom of God is within you.”
Then He said to the disciples,
“The days will come when you
will desire to see one of the days
of the Son of Man, and you will
not see it.
And they will say to you, ‘See
here!’ or ‘See there!’ Do not go
after them or follow them.
Because, as the lightning that
fl ashes out of one part under
heaven shines to the other part
under heaven, so also the Son of
Man will be in His day.
But fi rst He must suff er many
things and be rejected by this
generation.
And as it was in the days of
Noah, so it will be also in the days
of the Son of Man:
They ate, they drank, they married
wives, they were given in
marriage, until the day that Noah
entered the ark, and the fl ood
came and destroyed them all.
Likewise also, as it was in the
days of Lot: They ate, they drank,
they bought, they sold, they
planted, they built;
but on the day that Lot went out
of Sodom it rained fi re and brimstone
from heaven and destroyed
them all.
Even so will it be in the day
when the Son of Man is revealed.
“In that day, he who is on the
housetop, and his goods are in the
house, let him not come down to
take them away. And he who is in
the fi eld, let him not turn back.
Remember Lot’s wife.
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Whoever seeks to save his life
will lose it, and whoever loses his
life will preserve it.
I tell you, in that night there
will be two men in one bed: the
one will be taken and the other
will be left.
Two women will be grinding
together: the one will be taken
and the other left.
Two men will be in the fi eld:
the one will be taken and the
other left.”
And they replied and said to
Him, “Where, Lord?” So He said
to them, “Wherever the body is,
there the eagles will be gathered
together.”
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Then He spoke a parable to
them, concluding that men always
ought to pray and not lose heart,
saying: “There was in a certain
city a judge who did not reverence
God nor regard man.
Now there was a widow in that
city; and she came to him, saying,
‘Avenge me from my adversary.’
And he would not for a while;
but afterward he said within himself,
‘Though I do not reverence
God nor regard man,
yet because this widow troubles
me I will avenge her, lest by her
continual coming she weary me.’”
Then the Lord said, “Hear what
the unjust judge said.
And will God not avenge His
own elect who cry out day and
night to Him, though He bears
long with them?
I tell you that He will avenge
them speedily. Nevertheless,
when the Son of Man comes, shall
He fi nd faith on the earth?”
Also He spoke this parable to
some who trusted in themselves
that they were righteous, and
despised others:
“Two men went up to the temple
to pray, one a Pharisee and the
other a tax collector.
The Pharisee stood and prayed
to himself like this, ‘God, I thank
You that I am not like other men
are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers,
or even as this tax collector.
I fast twice a week; I give tithes
of all that I possess.’
And the tax collector, standing
afar off , would not so much as
raise his eyes to heaven, but beat
his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful
to me a sinner!’
I tell you, this man went down
to his house justifi ed rather than
the other; because, everyone who
exalts himself will be humbled,
and he who humbles himself will
be exalted.”
Then they also brought infants
to Him that He might touch them;
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but when His disciples saw it, they
rebuked them.
But Jesus called them to Him
and said, “Permit little children
to come to Me, and do not forbid
them; because, of such is the kingdom
of God.
Truly, I say to you, whoever
does not receive the kingdom
of God as a little child will by no
means enter it.”
Now a certain ruler asked Him,
saying, “Good Teacher, what shall
I do to inherit eternal life?”
So Jesus said to him, “Why do
you call Me good? No one is good
but One, that is, God.
You know the commandments:
‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not
murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not
bear false witness,’ ‘Honor your
father and your mother.’”
And he said, “All these things I
have kept from my youth up.”
So when Jesus heard these
things, He said to him, “You still
lack one thing. Sell all that you
have and distribute to the poor,
and you will have treasure in
heaven; and come, follow Me.”
But when he heard this, he
became very sorrowful, because
he was very rich.
And when Jesus saw that he
became very sorrowful, He said,
“How hard it is for those who have
riches to enter the kingdom of
God!
Because, it is easier for a camel
to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter into
the kingdom of God.”
And those who heard it said,
“Who then can be saved?”
But He said, “The things which
are impossible with men are possible
with God.”
Then Peter said, “See, we have
left all and followed You.”
So He said to them, “Truly, I say
to you, there is no one who has
left house or parents or brethren
or wife or children, for the sake of
the kingdom of God,
who will not receive many times
more in this present time, and in
the age to come life everlasting.”
Then He took the twelve to
Himself and said to them, “Behold,
we are going up to Jerusalem, and
all things that are written by the
prophets concerning the Son of
Man will be accomplished.
Because, He will be delivered to
the Gentiles and will be mocked
and insulted and spat upon.
Then they will scourge Him and
put Him to death. And the third
day He will rise again.”
But they understood none of
these things; this saying was hidden
from them, and they did
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not know the things which were
spoken.
Then it happened, as He was
coming near Jericho, that a certain
blind man sat by the road
begging.
And hearing the crowd passing
by, he asked what it meant.
So they told him that Jesus of
Nazareth was passing by.
And he shouted, saying, “Jesus,
You Son of David, have mercy on
me!”
Then those who went before
warned him that he should be
quiet; but he shouted all the
more, “You Son of David, have
mercy on me!”
So Jesus stood still and commanded
him to be brought to
Him. And when he had come near,
He asked him,
saying, “What do you want Me
to do for you?” He said, “Lord,
that I may receive my sight.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Receive
your sight; your faith has saved
you.”
And immediately he received his
sight, and followed Him, glorifying
God. And all the people, when they
saw it, gave praise to God.
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Then Jesus entered and passed
through Jericho.
Now behold, there was a man
named Zacchaeus who was a chief
tax collector, and he was rich.
And he sought to see who Jesus
was, but could not because of the
crowd, because he was of short
stature.
So he ran ahead and climbed up
into a sycamore tree to see Him,
because He was going to pass
that way.
And when Jesus came to the
place, He looked up and saw him,
and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make
haste and come down, because
today I must stay at your house.”
So he made haste and came
down, and received Him joyfully.
But when they saw it, they all
murmured, saying, “He has gone
to be a guest with a man who is a
sinner.”
Then Zacchaeus stood and said
to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give
half of my goods to the poor; and
if I have taken anything from anyone
by false accusation, I restore
fourfold to them.”
And Jesus said to him, “Today
salvation has come to this house,
because he also is the son of
Abraham;
because the Son of Man has
come to seek and to save that
which was lost.”
Now as they heard these
things, He spoke another parable,
because He was near Jerusalem
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and because they thought the
kingdom of God would appear
immediately.
Therefore He said: “A certain
nobleman went into a far country
to receive for himself a kingdom
and to return.
So he called ten his servants,
delivered to them ten minas, and
said to them, ‘Do business until I
come.’
But his citizens hated him, and
sent a message after him, saying,
‘We will not have this man to reign
over us.’
“And so it was that when he
returned, having received the
kingdom, he then commanded
these servants, to whom he had
given the money, to be called to
him, that he might know how
much every man had gained by
trading.
Then came the fi rst, saying,
‘Master, your mina has earned
ten minas.’
And he said to him, ‘Well done,
good servant; because you were
faithful in a very little, have
authority over ten cities.’
And the second came, saying,
‘Master, your mina has earned
fi ve minas.’
Likewise he said to him, ‘You
also be over fi ve cities.’
“Then another came, saying,
‘Master, look, here is your mina,
which I have kept put away in a
handkerchief.
Because, I feared you, since you
are a harsh man. You collect what
you did not lay down, and reap
what you did not sow.’
And he said to him, ‘Out of your
own mouth I will judge you, you
wicked servant. You knew that I
was a harsh man, collecting what
I did not lay down and reaping
what I did not sow.
Why then did you not put my
money in the bank, that at my
coming I might have collected my
own with interest?’
“And he said to those who stood
by, ‘Take the mina from him, and
give it to him who has ten minas.’
(they said to him, ‘Master, he
has ten minas.’)
‘Because, I say to you, that to
everyone who has will be given;
and from him who does not have,
even what he has will be taken
away from him.
But bring here those enemies
of mine, who did not want me to
reign over them, and slay them
before me.’”
When He had said this, He went
on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
And it came to pass, when He
drew near to Bethphage and
Bethany, at the mountain called
The Mount of Olives, that He sent
two of His disciples,
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saying, “Go into the village
opposite you, in which as you
enter you will fi nd a colt tied, on
which no one has ever sat. Loose
it and bring it here.
And if anyone asks you, ‘Why
are you loosing it?’ you shall say
this to him, ‘Because the Lord has
need of it.’”
So those who were sent went
their way and found it just as He
had said to them.
And as they were loosing the
colt, the owners of it said to them,
“Why are you loosing the colt?”
So they said, “The Lord has
need of him.”
Then they brought him to Jesus.
And they threw their clothes on
the colt, and they set Jesus on him.
And as He went, they spread
their clothes on the road.
Then, as He was drawing near,
that is, already at the descent of
the Mount of Olives, the entire
multitude of the disciples began
to rejoice and praise God with
a loud voice for all the mighty
works that they had seen,
saying: “‘Blessed is the King
who comes in the name of the
LORD!’ Peace in heaven and glory
in the highest!”
And from the crowd some of the
Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher,
rebuke Your disciples.”
But He replied and said to them,
“I tell you that if these should
keep silent, the stones would
immediately shout out.”
Now as He drew near, He saw
the city and wept over it,
saying, “If you had known, even
you, especially in this your day,
the things that are for your peace!
But now they are hidden from
your eyes.
Because, the days will come
upon you when your enemies will
build an embankment around
you, surround you and close you
in on every side,
and level you, and your children
within you, to the ground;
and they will not leave in you one
stone upon another, because you
did not know the time of your
visitation.”
Then He went into the temple
and began to drive out those who
sold and those who bought in it,
saying to them, “It is written,
‘My house is a house of prayer,’
but you have made it a ‘den of
thieves.’”
And He was teaching daily in
the temple. But the chief priests,
the scribes, and the leaders of the
people sought to destroy Him,
and were unable to do anything;
because all the people were
very attentive to hear Him.
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Now it happened on one of those
days, as He taught the people in
the temple and preached the gospel,
that the chief priests and the
scribes, together with the elders,
confronted Him
and spoke to Him, saying, “Tell
us, by what authority are You
doing these things? Or who is he
who gave You this authority?”
But He answered and said to
them, “I also will ask you one
thing, then answer Me:
The baptism of John, was it from
heaven or from men?”
And they reasoned among
themselves, saying, “If we say,
‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why
then did you not believe him?’
But if we say, ‘From men,’ all
the people will stone us, because
they are persuaded that John was
a prophet.”
So they answered that they did
not know where it was from.
And Jesus said to them, “Neither
will I tell you by what authority I
do these things.”
Then He began to tell the people
this parable: “A certain man
planted a vineyard, leased it to
vinedressers, and went into a far
country for a long time.
Now at harvest time he sent a
servant to the vinedressers, that
they might give him some of the
fruit of the vineyard. But the
vinedressers beat him and sent
him away empty handed.
And again he sent another
servant; and they beat him also,
treated him shamefully, and sent
him away empty handed.
And again he sent a third; and
they wounded him also and cast
him out.
“Then the owner of the vineyard
said, ‘What shall I do? I will
send my beloved son. It may be
they will respect him when they
see him.’
But when the vinedressers saw
him, they reasoned among themselves,
saying, ‘This is the heir.
Come, let us kill him, that the
inheritance may be ours.’
So they cast him out of the vineyard
and killed him. Therefore
what shall the owner of the vineyard
do to them?
He will come and destroy those
vinedressers and give the vineyard
to others.” And when they
heard it they said, “God forbid!”
Then He looked at them and
said, “What then is this that is
written: ‘The stone which the
builders rejected has become the
chief cornerstone’?
Whoever falls on that stone will
be broken; but on whomever it
falls, it will grind him to powder.”
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And the chief priests and the
scribes that very hour sought to
lay hands on Him, but they feared
the people, because they perceived
He had spoken this parable
against them.
So they watched Him, and sent
spies who pretended to be righteous
men, that they might seize
on His words, in order to deliver
Him to the power and the authority
of the governor.
Then they asked Him, saying,
“Teacher, we know that You say
and teach rightly, and You do not
show any personal favoritism, but
teach the way of God in truth:
Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to
Caesar or not?”
But He perceived their craftiness,
and said to them, “Why do
you test Me?
Show Me a denarius. Whose
image and inscription does it
have?” They answered and said,
“Caesar’s.”
And He said to them, “Render
therefore to Caesar the things
that are Caesar’s, and to God the
things that are God’s.”
But they could not catch Him in
His words in the presence of the
people. And they marveled at His
answer and kept silent.
Then some of the Sadducees,
who deny that there is a resurrection,
came to Him and asked Him,
saying: “Teacher, Moses wrote
to us that if a man’s brother dies,
having a wife, and he dies without
children, that his brother should
take his wife and raise up off -
spring for his brother.
There were seven brothers.
And the fi rst took a wife, and died
without children.
And the second took her as
wife, and he died childless.
Then the third took her, and in
like manner the seven also; and
they left no children, and died.
Last of all the woman died also.
Therefore, in the resurrection,
whose wife of them is she?
Because all seven had her as wife.”
And answering Jesus said to
them, “The children of this age
marry and are given in marriage.
But those who will be counted
worthy to attain that age, and the
resurrection from the dead, neither
marry nor are given in marriage;
nor can they die anymore,
because, they are equal to the
angels and are children of God,
being children of the resurrection.
But even Moses revealed at the
bush that the dead are raised,
when he called the Lord ‘the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob.’
Because, He is not the God of
the dead but of the living, because
all live to Him.”
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Then some of the scribes replied
and said, “Teacher, You have spoken
well.”
But after that they dared not
ask Him any more questions.
And He said to them, “How
can they say that the Christ is
David’s Son?
Now David himself said in the
Book of Psalms: ‘The LORD said to
my Lord, “Sit at My right hand,
until I make Your enemies Your
footstool.”’
Therefore David calls Him
‘Lord’; how is He then his Son?”
Then, in the hearing of all the
people, He said to His disciples,
“Beware of the scribes, who
desire to go around in long robes,
love greetings in the marketplaces,
the best seats in the synagogues,
and the best places at feasts,
who devour widows’ houses,
and for a show make long prayers.
These will receive greater
damnation.”
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And He looked up and saw the
rich ones putting their gifts into
the treasury,
and He also saw a certain poor
widow putting in two mites in
there.
So He said, “Truly I say to you
that this poor widow has put in
more than they all have;
because, all these out of their
abundance have put in off erings
for God, but she out of her poverty
has put in all the livelihood
that she had.”
Then, as some spoke of the
temple, how it was adorned with
beautiful stones and donations,
He said,
“As for these things which you see,
the days will come in which not
one stone will be left upon another
that will not be thrown down.”
So they asked Him, saying,
“Teacher, but when shall these
things be? And what sign shall
there be when these things are
about to take place?”
And He said: “Take heed that
you be not be deceived. Because,
many will come in My name, saying,
‘I am Christ,’ and, ‘The time
has drawn near.’ Therefore do not
go after them.
But when you hear of wars and
commotions, do not be terrifi ed;
because, these things must happen
fi rst, but the end is not yet.”
Then He said to them, “Nation
will rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom.
And there will be large earthquakes
in various places, and
famines and pestilences; and
there will be fearful sights and
great signs from heaven.
But before all these things, they
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will lay their hands on you and
persecute you, delivering you up
to the synagogues and into prisons;
being brought before kings
and rulers for My name’s sake.
But it will turn out for you as a
testimony.
Therefore settle it in your
hearts not to meditate beforehand
on what you will answer;
because, I will give you a mouth
and wisdom which all your
adversaries will not be able to
contradict or resist.
But you will be betrayed also
by parents and brethren, relatives
and friends; and some of you they
will cause to be put to death.
And you will be hated by all people
for My name’s sake.
But not a hair of your head
will perish.
By your endurance you possess
your souls.
“But when you see Jerusalem
surrounded by armies, then know
that its desolation is near.
Then let those who are in Judea
fl ee to the mountains, let those
who are in the midst of it depart
out, and let not those who are in
the country enter into it.
Because these are the days of
vengeance, that all things which
are written may be fulfi lled.
But woe to those who are
pregnant and to those who are
nursing babes in those days!
Because there will be great distress
in the land and wrath upon
this people.
And they will fall by the edge
of the sword, and be led away
captive into all nations. And
Jerusalem will be trampled by
Gentiles until the times of the
Gentiles are fulfi lled.
“And there will be signs in
the sun, in the moon, and in the
stars; and on the earth distress of
nations, with perplexity, the sea
and the waves roaring;
men’s hearts failing them from
fear and the expectation of those
things which are coming on the
earth, because the powers of
heaven will be shaken.
And then they will see the Son
of Man coming in a cloud with
power and great glory.
Now when these things begin to
happen, look up and lift up your
heads, because your redemption
draws near.”
Then He spoke to them a parable:
“Look at the fi g tree, and all
the trees.
When they are already budding,
you see and know for yourselves
that summer is now near.
So you also, when you see these
things happening, know that the
kingdom of God is near.
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Truly, I say to you, this generation
will not pass away until all
things take place.
Heaven and earth will pass away,
but My words will not pass away.
“But take heed to yourselves,
lest at any time your hearts be
weighed down with over indulgence,
drunkenness, and cares
of this life, and so that Day come
upon you unexpectedly.
Because, it will come as a snare
on all those who dwell on the face
of the entire earth.
Watch therefore, and pray
always that you may be counted
worthy to escape all these things
that will happen, and to stand
before the Son of Man.”
And in the daytime He was
teaching in the temple, but at
night He went out and stayed on
the mount that is called The Mount
of Olives.
Then early in the morning all
the people came to Him in the
temple to hear Him.
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Now the Feast of Unleavened
Bread drew near, which is called
The Passover.
And the chief priests and the
scribes sought how they might
kill Him, because they feared
the people.
Then Satan entered into Judas,
surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered
among the twelve.
So he went his way, and communed
with the chief priests and
captains how he might betray
Him to them.
And they were glad, and covenanted
to give him money.
So he promised and sought
opportunity to betray Him to
them in the absence of the crowd.
Then came the Day of Unleavened
Bread, when the Passover must be
killed.
And He sent Peter and John, saying,
“Go and prepare the Passover
for us, that we may eat.”
So they said to Him, “Where do
You want us to prepare?”
And He said to them, “Behold,
when you have entered into the
city, a man will meet you carrying
a pitcher of water; follow him into
the house where he enters.
Then you will say to the master
of the house, ‘The Teacher says
to you, “Where is the guest room
where I may eat the Passover with
My disciples?”’
Then he will show you a large,
furnished upper room; there
make ready.”
So they went and found it just
as He had said to them, and they
prepared the Passover.
When the hour had come, He
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sat down, and the twelve apostles
with Him.
Then He said to them, “With fervent
desire I have desired to eat this
Passover with you before I suff er;
because, I say to you, I will no
longer eat of it until it is fulfi lled
in the kingdom of God.”
Then He took the cup, and gave
thanks, and said, “Take this and
divide it among yourselves;
because, I say to you, I will not
drink of the fruit of the vine until
the kingdom of God comes.”
And He took bread, gave thanks
and broke it, and gave it to them,
saying, “This is My body which is
given for you; do this in remembrance
of Me.”
Likewise also the cup after supper,
saying, “This cup is the new
testament in My blood, which is
shed for you.
But behold, the hand of him who
betrays Me is with Me on the table.
And truly the Son of Man goes
as it has been determined, but
woe to that man by whom He is
betrayed!”
Then they began to question
among themselves, which of them
it was who would do this thing.
Now there was also a dispute
among them, as to which of them
should be considered the greatest.
And He said to them, “The
kings of the Gentiles exercise
lordship over them, and those
who exercise authority over them
are called ‘benefactors.’
But you shall not be like this; but
rather, he who is greatest among
you, let him be as the younger, and
he who rules as he who serves.
Because, who is greater, he who
sits at the table, or he who serves?
Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet
I am among you as He who serves.
“You are those who have continued
with Me in My trials.
And I appoint to you a kingdom,
just as My Father has appointed
to Me,
that you may eat and drink at
My table in My kingdom, and sit
upon thrones judging the twelve
tribes of Israel.”
And the Lord said, “Simon,
Simon! Indeed, Satan has desired
to have you all, that he may sift you
all like wheat.
But I have prayed for you,
that your faith should not fail;
and when you are converted,
strengthen your brethren.”
But he said to Him, “Lord, I
am ready to go with You, both to
prison and to death.”
Then He said, “I tell you, Peter,
the rooster will not crow this day
before you will deny three times
that you know Me.”
And He said to them, “When
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I sent you without money bag,
knapsack, and sandals, did you
lack anything?” And they said,
“Nothing.”
Then He said to them, “But now,
he who has a money bag, let him
take it, and likewise his knapsack;
and he who has no sword, let him
sell his coat and buy one.
Because, I say to you that this
which is written must still be
accomplished in Me: ‘And He
was numbered with the transgressors.’
Because the things
concerning Me have an end.”
So they said, “Lord, look, here
are two swords.” And He said to
them, “It is enough.”
And He came out, and went to
the Mount of Olives, as He was
accustomed, and His disciples
also followed Him.
When He came to the place, He
said to them, “Pray that you do
not enter into temptation.”
And He was withdrawn from
them about a stone’s throw, and
He knelt down and prayed,
saying, “Father, if You are willing,
take this cup away from Me;
nevertheless not My will, but
Yours, be done.”
Then an angel appeared to Him
from heaven, strengthening Him.
And being in agony, He prayed
more earnestly. Then His sweat
became like great drops of blood
falling down to the ground.
When He rose up from prayer,
and had come to His disciples, He
found them sleeping from sorrow.
Then He said to them, “Why do
you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you
enter into temptation.”
And while He was still speaking,
behold, a crowd; and he who was
called Judas, one of the twelve,
went before them and drew near
to Jesus to kiss Him.
But Jesus said to him, “Judas,
are you betraying the Son of Man
with a kiss?”
When those around Him saw
what was going to happen, they
said to Him, “Lord, shall we strike
with the sword?”
And one of them struck the servant
of the high priest and cut off
his right ear.
But Jesus answered and said,
“Proceed thus far, all of you.” And
He touched his ear and healed him.
Then Jesus said to the chief
priests, captains of the temple, and
the elders who had come to Him,
“Have you come out, as against a
robber, with swords and clubs?
When I was with you daily in
the temple, you did not stretch
your hand out against Me. But
this is your hour, and the power
of darkness.”
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Then they took Him, they led
Him and brought Him into the
high priest’s house. But Peter followed
at a distance.
Now when they had kindled a
fi re in the midst of the courtyard
and sat down together, Peter sat
among them.
And a certain servant girl,
seeing him as he sat by the fi re,
looked intently at him and said,
“This man was also with Him.”
But he denied Him, saying,
“Woman, I do not know Him.”
And after a little while another
saw him and said, “You also are
of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I
am not!”
Then after about an hour had
passed, after another confi dently
affi rmed, saying, “Surely this man
was also with Him, because he is a
Galilean.”
Then Peter said, “Man, I do not
know what you are saying!” And
immediately, while he was still
speaking, the rooster crowed.
And the Lord turned and looked
at Peter. Then Peter remembered
the word of the Lord, how He had
said to him, “Before the rooster
crows, you will deny Me three
times.”
So Peter went out and wept
bitterly.
Now the men who held Jesus
mocked Him and beat Him.
And having blindfolded Him,
they struck Him on the face and
asked Him, saying, “Prophesy!
Who is it who struck You?”
And many other things they
blasphemously spoke against Him.
As soon as it was day, the elders
of the people, both chief priests
and scribes, came together
and led Him into their council,
saying,
“Are You the Christ, tell us.” But
He said to them, “If I tell you, you
will not believe.
And if I also ask you, you will
not answer Me or let Me go.
After this the Son of Man will
sit on the right hand of the power
of God.”
Then they all said, “Are You
then the Son of God?” So He said
to them, “You say that I am.”
And they said, “What further
witness do we need? Because we
have heard it ourselves from His
own mouth.”
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Then the entire multitude of
them arose and led Him to Pilate.
And they began to accuse Him,
saying, “We found this man perverting
the nation, and forbidding
to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that
He Himself is Christ, a King.”
Then Pilate asked Him, saying,
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“Are You the King of the Jews?”
And He answered him and said,
“You say it .”
So Pilate said to the chief priests
and to the people, “I fi nd no fault
in this Man.”
But they were the more fi erce,
saying, “He stirs up the people,
teaching throughout all Jewry,
beginning from Galilee to this
place.”
When Pilate heard of Galilee, he
asked if the Man were a Galilean.
And as soon as he knew that
He belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction,
he sent Him to Herod, who
was himself also in Jerusalem at
that time.
Now when Herod saw Jesus, he
was exceedingly glad; because, he
had desired for a long time to see
Him, because he had heard many
things about Him, and he had
hoped to have seen some miracle
done by Him.
Then he questioned Him with
many words, but He answered
him nothing.
And the chief priests and
scribes stood and vehemently
accused Him.
Then Herod, with his men of
war, treated Him with contempt
and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a
gorgeous robe, and sent Him back
to Pilate.
That very day Pilate and Herod
became friends with each other,
because previously they had been
at enmity between themselves.
Then Pilate, when he had called
together the chief priests, the rulers,
and the people,
said to them, “You have brought
this Man to me, as one who perverts
the people. And indeed,
having examined Him in your
presence, I have found no fault in
this Man concerning those things
of which you accuse Him;
no, neither did Herod, because,
I sent you to him; and indeed
nothing deserving of death has
been done to Him.
I will therefore chastise Him
and release Him”
(because it was necessary for him
to release one to them at the feast).
But they all shouted out at once,
saying, “Away with this Man, and
release to us Barabbas,”
who had been thrown into
prison for a certain rebellion
made in the city, and for murder.
Pilate, therefore, willing to
release Jesus, spoke to them again.
But they shouted, saying,
“Crucify Him, crucify Him!”
Then he said to them the third
time, “Why, what evil has He
done? I have found no reason
for death in Him. I will therefore
chastise Him and let Him go.”
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But they were insistent,
demanding with loud voices that
He be crucifi ed. And the voices of
these men and of the chief priests
prevailed.
So Pilate gave sentence that it
should be as they demanded.
And he released to them the
one they preferred, who for rebellion
and murder had been thrown
into prison; but he delivered Jesus
to their will.
Now as they led Him away, they
laid hold of a certain man, Simon
a Cyrenian, who was coming from
the country, and on him they laid
the cross that he might carry it
after Jesus.
And a large company of the people
followed Him, and women who
also mourned and lamented Him.
But Jesus, turning to them, said,
“Daughters of Jerusalem, do not
weep for Me, but weep for yourselves
and for your children.
Because, indeed the days
are coming in which they will
say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the
wombs that never bore, and
breasts which never nursed!’
Then they will begin ‘to say to
the mountains, “Fall on us!” and
to the hills, “Cover us!”’
Because, if they do these things
in the green wood, what will be
done in the dry?”
There were also two others,
criminals, led with Him to be put
to death.
And when they had come to the
place that is called Calvary, there
they crucifi ed Him, and the criminals,
one on the right hand and
the other on the left.
Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive
them, because they do not know
what they do.” And they divided
His clothes and cast lots.
And the people stood looking
on. But the rulers, also with them,
ridiculed Him, saying, “He saved
others; let Him save Himself if He
is the Christ, the chosen of God.”
The soldiers also mocked Him,
coming to Him and off ering Him
vinegar,
and saying, “If You are the King
of the Jews, save Yourself.”
And an inscription also was
written over Him in letters of
Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: THIS IS
THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Then one of the criminals who
were hanged blasphemed Him,
saying, “If You are the Christ, save
Yourself and us.”
But the other, responding,
rebuked him, saying, “Do you not
reverence God, seeing you are
under the same condemnation?
And we indeed justly, because
we receive the due reward of our
deeds; but this Man has done
nothing wrong.”
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Then he said to Jesus, “Lord,
remember me when You come
into Your kingdom.”
And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I
say to you, today you will be with
Me in Paradise.”
Now it was about the sixth
hour, and there was darkness over
all the earth until the ninth hour.
Then the sun was darkened,
and the veil of the temple was
torn in the middle.
And when Jesus had shouted
with a loud voice, He said, “Father,
‘into Your hands I commit My
spirit.’” Having said this, He gave
up the spirit.
So when the centurion saw
what had happened, he glorifi ed
God, saying, “Certainly this was a
righteous Man!”
And all the people who came
together to that sight, seeing
what had been done, beat their
chests and returned.
But all His acquaintances, and
the women who followed Him
from Galilee, stood at a distance,
watching these things.
Now behold, there was a man
named Joseph, a council member,
and he was a good and just man.
He had not consented to their
decision and deed. He was from
Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who
himself was also waiting for the
kingdom of God.
This man went to Pilate and
asked for the body of Jesus.
Then he took it down, wrapped
it in linen, and laid it in a tomb
that was hewn out of the rock,
where no one had ever lain before.
That day was the Preparation,
and the Sabbath drew near.
And the women also who had
come with Him from Galilee followed
after, and they observed the
tomb and how His body was laid.
Then they returned and prepared
spices and fragrant oils.
And they rested on the Sabbath
according to the commandment.
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Now on the fi rst day of the week,
very early in the morning, they,
and certain
others with them, came to the
tomb bringing the spices which
they had prepared.
But they found the stone rolled
away from the tomb.
Then they went in and did not
fi nd the body of the Lord Jesus.
And it happened, as they were
greatly perplexed about this, that
behold, two men stood by them in
shining clothing.
Then, as they were afraid and
bowed their faces to the earth,
they said to them, “Why do you
seek the living among the dead?
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He is not here, but is risen!
Remember how He spoke to you
when He was still in Galilee,
saying, ‘The Son of Man must be
delivered into the hands of sinful
men, and be crucifi ed, and the
third day rise again.’”
And they remembered His words.
Then they returned from the
tomb and told all these things to
the eleven and to all the rest.
It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna,
Mary the mother of James, and the
other women that were with them,
who told these things to the
apostles.
And their words seemed to
them like idle tales, and they did
not believe them.
But Peter arose and ran to the
tomb; and stooping down, he saw
the linen cloths lying by themselves;
and departed, marveling
to himself at what had happened.
Now behold, two of them were
traveling that same day to a village
called Emmaus, which was about
sixty stadiums from Jerusalem.
And they talked together of all
these things which had happened.
So it was, while they conversed
and reasoned together,
that Jesus Himself drew near and
went with them.
But their eyes were restrained,
so that they did not know Him.
And He said to them, “What
kind of conversation is this that
you have with one another as you
walk and are sad?”
Then the one whose name
was Cleopas answered and said
to Him, “Are You only a stranger
in Jerusalem, and have You not
known the things that happened
there in these days?”
And He said to them, “What
things?” So they said to Him,
“Concerning Jesus of Nazareth,
who was a Prophet mighty in
deed and word before God and all
the people,
and how the chief priests and
our rulers delivered Him to be
condemned to death, and have
crucifi ed Him.
But we were hoping that it
was He who was going to redeem
Israel. And besides all this, today
is the third day since these things
were done.
Yes, and certain women also of
our company, who arrived at the
tomb early, astonished us.
And when they did not fi nd His
body, they came saying that they
had also seen a vision of angels
who said He was alive.
And certain of those who were
with us went to the tomb and
found it just as the women had
said; but Him they did not see.”
Then He said to them, “O foolish
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ones, and slow of heart to believe
all that the prophets have spoken!
Ought not Christ to have suffered
these things and to enter
into His glory?”
And beginning at Moses and
all the Prophets, He expounded
to them in all the Scriptures the
things concerning Himself.
Then they drew near to the village
where they were going, and
He indicated that He would have
gone farther.
But they constrained Him, saying,
“Stay with us, because it is
close to evening, and the day is
far spent.” And He went in to stay
with them.
Now it came to pass, as He sat at
the table with them, that He took
bread, blessed and broke it, and
gave it to them.
Then their eyes were opened
and they knew Him; and He vanished
from their sight.
And they said to one another,
“Did not our heart burn within
us while He talked with us on the
road, and while He opened the
Scriptures to us?”
So they rose up that very hour
and returned to Jerusalem, and
found the eleven and those who
were with them gathered together,
saying, “The Lord is risen
indeed, and has appeared to
Simon!”
And they told about the things
that had happened on the road, and
how He was known to them in the
breaking of bread.
Now as they said these things,
Jesus Himself stood in the midst
of them, and said to them, “Peace
to you.”
But they were terrifi ed and
frightened, and supposed they
had seen a spirit.
And He said to them, “Why are
you troubled? And why do doubts
arise in your hearts?
Behold My hands and My feet,
that it is I Myself. Handle Me and
see, because a spirit does not have
fl esh and bones as you see I have.”
When He had said this, He showed
them His hands and His feet.
But while they still did not
believe for joy, and marveled, He
said to them, “Have you any food
here?”
So they gave Him a piece of a
broiled fi sh and some honeycomb.
And He took it and ate in their
presence.
Then He said to them, “These
are the words which I spoke to
you while I was still with you, that
all things must be fulfi lled which
were written in the Law of Moses
and in the Prophets and in the
Psalms concerning Me.”
And He opened their
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understanding, that they might
understand the Scriptures.
Then He said to them, “Thus
it is written, and thus it was necessary
for Christ to suff er and to
rise from the dead the third day,
and that repentance and remission
of sins should be preached in
His name to all nations, beginning
at Jerusalem.
And you are witnesses of
these things.
And behold, I send the Promise
of My Father upon you; but wait in
the city of Jerusalem until you are
endued with power from on high.”
And He led them out as far as
Bethany, and He lifted up His
hands and blessed them.
Now it came to pass, while He
blessed them, that He was parted
from them and carried up into
heaven.
And they worshiped Him, and
returned to Jerusalem with great
joy,
and were continually in the
temple praising and blessing
God. Amen.
THE GOSPEL A CCORDING TO
JOHN
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In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with
God.
All things were made by Him,
and without Him nothing was
made that was made.
In Him was life, and the life was
the light of men.
And the light shines in darkness,
and the darkness did not comprehend
it.
There was a man sent from God,
whose name was John.
This man came for a witness, to
bear witness of the Light, that all
men through him might believe.
He was not that Light, but was
sent to bear witness of that Light.
That was the true Light which
gives light to every man who
comes into the world.
He was in the world, and the
world was made by Him, yet the
world did not know Him.
He came to His own, and His
own did not receive Him.
But as many as received Him,
to them He gave authority to
become the sons of God, even to
those who believe on His name:
who were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the fl esh, nor of
the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made fl esh
and dwelt among us, and we
beheld His glory, the glory as of
the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth.
John bore witness of Him and
shouted, saying, “This was He
of whom I said, ‘He who comes
after me is preferred before me,
because He was before me.’”
And of His fullness we all have
received, and grace for grace.
Because, the law was given
through Moses, but grace and
truth came by Jesus Christ.
No one has seen God at any
time. The only begotten Son, who
is in the bosom of the Father, He
has declared Him.
Now this is the record of John,
when the Jews sent priests and
Levites from Jerusalem to ask
him, “Who are you?”
And he confessed, and did not
deny, but confessed, “I am not the
Christ.”
And they asked him, “What
then? Are you Elijah?” And he said,
“I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?”
And he answered, “No.”
Then they said to him, “Who are
you, that we may give an answer
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to those who sent us? What do
you say about yourself?”
He said: “I am ‘the voice of one
shouting in the wilderness: “Make
straight the way of the LORD,”’ as
the prophet Isaiah said.
Now those who were sent were
of the Pharisees.
And they asked him, and said to
him, “Why then do you baptize if
you are not the Christ, nor Elijah,
nor the Prophet?”
John answered them, saying,
“I baptize with water, but there
stands One among you whom you
do not know.
It is He who, coming after me,
is preferred before me, whose
sandal strap I am not worthy to
unloose.”
These things were done in
Bethabara beyond Jordan, where
John was baptizing.
The next day John saw Jesus
coming to him, and said, “Behold
the Lamb of God, who takes away
the sin of the world!
This is He of whom I said, ‘After
me comes a Man who is preferred
before me, because He was
before me.’
And I did not know Him; but
that He should be revealed to
Israel, therefore I came baptizing
with water.”
And John bore record, saying,
“I saw the Spirit descending
from heaven like a dove, and it
remained upon Him.
And I did not know Him, but
He who sent me to baptize with
water, the same said to me, ‘Upon
whom you will see the Spirit
descending, and remaining on
Him, this is He who baptizes with
the Holy Spirit.’
And I have seen and bare record
that this is the Son of God.”
Again, the next day, after John
stood with two of his disciples,
looking upon Jesus as He
walked, he said, “Behold the Lamb
of God!”
And the two disciples heard him
speak, and they followed Jesus.
Then Jesus turned, and seeing
them following, said to them,
“What do you seek?” They said
to Him, “Rabbi,” (which is to
say, when translated, Teacher),
“where are You staying?”
He said to them, “Come and
see.” They came and saw where
He was staying, and remained
with Him that day (because it was
about the tenth hour).
One of the two who heard John
speak, and followed Him, was
Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
He fi rst found his own brother
Simon, and said to him, “We have
found the Messiah” (which is
translated, the Christ).
And he brought him to Jesus.
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And when Jesus looked at him, He
said, “You are Simon the son of
Jonah. You will be called Cephas,”
(which is translated, A Stone).
The following day Jesus wanted
to go to Galilee, and He found
Philip, and said to him, “Follow
Me.”
Now Philip was of Bethsaida,
the city of Andrew and Peter.
Philip found Nathanael and
said to him, “We have found
Him, of whom Moses in the law,
and the prophets, wrote, Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
And Nathanael said to him,
“Can anything good come out of
Nazareth?” Philip said to him,
“Come and see.”
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to
Him, and said of him, “Behold an
Israelite indeed, in whom is no
deceit!”
Nathanael said to Him, “How do
You know me?” Jesus answered
and said to him, “Before Philip
called you, when you were under
the fi g tree, I saw you.”
Nathanael replied and said to
Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of
God! You are the King of Israel!”
Jesus replied and said to him,
“Because I said to you, ‘I saw
you under the fi g tree,’ do you
believe? You will see greater
things than these.”
And He said to him, “Truly, truly,
I say to you, after this you all will
see heaven open, and the angels
of God ascending and descending
upon the Son of Man.”
CHAPTER
On the third day there was a
wedding in Cana of Galilee, and
the mother of Jesus was there.
Now both Jesus and His disciples
were invited to the wedding.
And when they ran out of grape
juice, the mother of Jesus said to
Him, “They have no grape juice.”
Jesus said to her, “Woman, what
does your concern have to do with
Me? My hour has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servants,
“Whatever He says to you, do it.”
Now there were set there six
waterpots of stone, according
to the manner of purifi cation of
the Jews, containing two or three
measures each.
Jesus said to them, “Fill the
waterpots with water.” And they
fi lled them up to the brim.
And He said to them, “Draw some
out now, and take it to the master
of the feast.” And they took it.
When the master of the feast
had tasted the water that was
made grape juice, and did not
know where it came from (but
the servants who had drawn the
water knew), the master of the
feast called the bridegroom.
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And said to him, “Every man at
the beginning sets out the good
grape juice, and when the guests
fully drink that, then the inferior.
But you have kept the good grape
juice until now!”
This beginning of miracles
Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and
manifested His glory; and His disciples
believed on Him.
After this He went down to
Capernaum, He, His mother, His
brethren, and His disciples; and
they did not stay there many days.
Now the Passover of the Jews
was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem,
and found in the temple those
who sold oxen and sheep and
doves, and the money changers
sitting.
And when He had made a whip
of small cords, He drove them all
out of the temple, with the sheep
and the oxen, and poured out the
changers’ money and overturned
the tables.
And He said to those who sold
doves, “Take these things away!
Do not make My Father’s house a
house of merchandise!”
Then His disciples remembered
that it was written, “The zeal for
Your house has eaten Me up.”
So the Jews responded and said
to Him, “What sign do You show
to us, since You do these things?”
Jesus answered and said to
them, “Destroy this temple, and
in three days I will raise it up.”
Then the Jews said, “It has
taken forty six years to build this
temple, and will You raise it up in
three days?”
But He was speaking of the temple
of His body.
Therefore, when He had risen
from the dead, His disciples
remembered that He had said
this to them; and they believed
the Scripture and the word which
Jesus had said.
Now when He was in Jerusalem
at the Passover, during the feast
day, many believed in His name
when they saw the miracles
which He did.
But Jesus did not commit
Himself to them, because He
knew all men,
and had no need that anyone
should testify of man, because He
knew what was in man.
CHAPTER
There was a man of the
Pharisees named Nicodemus, a
ruler of the Jews.
This man came to Jesus by night
and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know
that You are a teacher come from
God; because, no one can do these
miracles that You do unless God is
with him.”
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Jesus replied and said to him,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a
man is born again, he cannot see
the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus said to Him, “How
can a man be born when he is old?
Can he enter a second time into
his mother’s womb and be born?”
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I
say to you, unless a man is born of
water and of the Spirit, he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the fl esh
is fl esh, and that which is born of
the Spirit is spirit.
Do not marvel that I said to you,
‘You all must be born again.’
The wind blows where it wishes,
and you hear the sound of it, but
cannot tell where it comes from
and where it goes. So is everyone
who is born of the Spirit.”
Nicodemus replied and said to
Him, “How can these things be?”
Jesus answered and said to him,
“Are you the teacher of Israel, and
do not know these things?
Truly, truly, I say to you, We
speak what We know and testify
what We have seen, and you all do
not receive Our witness.
If I have told you earthly things
and you do not believe, how will
you believe if I tell you of heavenly
things?
And no man has ascended up
to heaven but He who came down
from heaven, that is, the Son of
Man who is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, even so
must the Son of Man be lifted up,
that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have eternal
life.
Because God loved the world so
much He gave His only begotten
Son, that whoever believes in Him
would not perish but have everlasting
life.
Because, God did not send His
Son into the world to condemn
the world, but that the world
through Him might be saved.
“He who believes on Him is not
condemned; but he who does not
believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in
the name of the only begotten
Son of God.
And this is the condemnation,
that the light came into the
world, and men loved darkness
rather than light, because their
deeds were evil.
Because, everyone who does
evil hates the light and does not
come to the light, lest his deeds
should be exposed.
But he who does the truth
comes to the light, that his deeds
may be clearly seen, that they
have been done in God.”
After these things Jesus and
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His disciples came into the land
of Judea, and there He remained
with them and baptized.
Now John also was baptizing in
Aenon near Salim, because there
was a lot of water there. And they
came and were baptized.
Because John had not yet been
thrown into prison.
Then there arose a dispute
between some of John’s disciples
and the Jews about purifi cation.
And they came to John and said
to him, “Rabbi, He who was with
you beyond the Jordan, to whom
you have witnessed of, look, He is
baptizing, and everyone is coming
to Him!”
John answered and said, “A man
can receive nothing unless it has
been given to him from heaven.
You yourselves bear me witness,
that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but
that, ‘I have been sent before Him.’
He who has the bride is the
bridegroom; but the friend of the
bridegroom, who stands and hears
him, rejoices greatly because of
the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore
this joy of mine is fulfi lled.
He must increase, but I must
decrease.
He who comes from above is
above all; he who is of the earth
is earthly and speaks of the earth.
He who comes from heaven is
above all.
And what He has seen and
heard, that He testifi es; and no
one receives His testimony.
He who has received His testimony
has certifi ed that God is true.
Because, He whom God has sent
speaks the words of God, because
God does not give the Spirit by
measure to Him.
The Father loves the Son, and
has given all things into His hand.
He who believes on the Son has
everlasting life; and he who does
not believe the Son will not see
life, but the wrath of God abides
on him.”
CHAPTER
Therefore, when the Lord knew
that the Pharisees had heard that
Jesus made and baptized more
disciples than John
(though Jesus Himself did not
baptize, but His disciples),
He left Judea and departed again
to Galilee.
But He needed to go through
Samaria.
So He came to a city of Samaria
which is called Sychar, near the
plot of ground that Jacob gave to
his son Joseph.
Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus
therefore, being wearied from His
journey, sat thus on the well. Now
it was about the sixth hour.
A woman of Samaria came there
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to draw water. Jesus said to her,
“Give Me a drink.”
Because His disciples had gone
away into the city to buy food.
Then the woman of Samaria said
to Him, “How is it that You, being
a Jew, ask a drink from me, that is a
Samaritan woman?” Because Jews
have no dealings with Samaritans.
Jesus answered and said to her,
“If you knew the gift of God, and
who it is who says to you, ‘Give
Me a drink,’ you would have asked
Him, and He would have given
you living water.”
The woman said to Him, “Sir,
You have nothing to draw with,
and the well is deep. Where then
do You get that living water?
Are You greater than our father
Jacob, who gave us the well, and
drank from it himself, as well as
his children and his livestock?”
Jesus answered and said to her,
“Whoever drinks of this water
will thirst again,
but whoever drinks of the water
that I will give him will never
thirst. But the water that I will
give him will be in him a fountain
of water springing up into everlasting
life.”
The woman said to Him, “Sir,
give me this water, that I may not
thirst, nor come here to draw.”
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your
husband, and come here.”
The woman replied and said, “I
have no husband.” Jesus said to
her, “You have said rightly, ‘I have
no husband,’
Because, you have had fi ve husbands,
and the one whom you
now have is not your husband; in
that you spoke truly.”
The woman said to Him, “Sir, I
perceive that You are a prophet.
Our fathers worshiped on this
mountain, and you all say that in
Jerusalem is the place where one
ought to worship.”
Jesus said to her, “Woman,
believe Me, the hour is coming
when you will neither on this
mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship
the Father.
You worship what you do not
know; we know what we worship,
because salvation is of the Jews.
But the hour is coming, and
now is, when the true worshipers
will worship the Father in spirit
and truth; because the Father is
seeking such to worship Him.
God is a Spirit, and those who
worship Him must worship Him in
spirit and in truth.”
The woman said to Him, “I
know that Messiah is coming who
is called Christ. When He comes,
He will tell us all things.”
Jesus said to her, “I who speak
to you am He.”
And at this point His disciples
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came, and they marveled that He
talked with the woman; yet no
one said, “What do You seek?” or,
“Why are You talking with her?”
The woman then left her waterpot,
went her way into the city,
and said to the men,
“Come, see a Man who told me
everything that I ever did. Is this
not the Christ?”
Then they went out of the city
and came to Him.
In the meantime His disciples
urged Him, saying, “Teacher, eat.”
But He said to them, “I have
food to eat of which you do not
know about.”
Therefore the disciples said to
one another, “Has anyone brought
Him anything to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “My food is
to do the will of Him who sent Me,
and to fi nish His work.
Do you not say, ‘There are still
four months and then comes the
harvest’? Behold, I say to you,
lift up your eyes and look at the
fi elds, because they are already
white for harvest!
And he who reaps receives
wages, and gathers fruit for eternal
life, that both he who sows
and he who reaps may rejoice
together.
Because in this the saying is true:
‘One sows and another reaps.’
I sent you to reap that for which
you have not labored; others have
labored, and you have entered
into their labors.”
And many of the Samaritans of
that city believed on Him because
of the word of the woman who
testifi ed, “He told me everything
that I ever did.”
So when the Samaritans had
come to Him, they urged Him to
stay with them; and He stayed
there two days.
And many more believed
because of His own word.
Then they said to the woman,
“Now we believe, not because of
what you said, but because we
have heard Him ourselves and
we know that this is indeed the
Christ, the Savior of the world.”
Now after the two days He
departed from there and went to
Galilee.
Because, Jesus Himself testifi ed
that a prophet has no honor in his
own country.
Then when He came to Galilee,
the Galileans received Him, having
seen all the things He did in
Jerusalem at the feast; because
they also had gone to the feast.
So Jesus came again to Cana of
Galilee where He had made the
water grape juice. And there was a
certain nobleman whose son was
sick at Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had
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come out of Judea into Galilee,
he went to Him and implored
Him to come down and heal his
son, because he was at the point
of death.
Then Jesus said to him, “Unless
you see signs and wonders, you all
will not believe.”
The nobleman said to Him, “Sir,
come down before my child dies!”
Jesus said to him, “Go your
way; your son lives.” So the man
believed the word that Jesus spoke
to him, and he went his way.
And as he was now going down,
his servants met him and told
him, saying, “Your son lives!”
Then he inquired of them
the hour when he began to get
better. And they said to him,
“Yesterday at the seventh hour
the fever left him.”
So the father knew that it was at
the same hour in which Jesus said
to him, “Your son lives.” And he
himself believed, and his entire
household.
This again is the second miracle
that Jesus did when He had come
out of Judea into Galilee.
CHAPTER
After this there was a feast of
the Jews, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
Now there is in Jerusalem by the
Sheep Gate a pool, which is called
in the Hebrew language, Bethesda,
having fi ve porches.
In these lay a large crowd of sick
people, blind, lame, paralyzed,
waiting for the moving of the water.
Because, an angel went down at
a certain time into the pool and
stirred up the water; then whoever
stepped in fi rst, after the
stirring of the water, was made
well of whatever disease he had.
Now a certain man was there who
had an infi rmity thirty eight years.
When Jesus saw him lying there,
and knew that he already had
been in that condition a long time,
He said to him, “Do you want to be
made well?”
The sick man answered Him,
“Sir, I have no man to put me
into the pool when the water is
stirred up; but while I am coming,
another steps down before me.”
Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up
your bed and walk.”
And immediately the man was
made well, took up his bed, and
walked. And on the same day was
the Sabbath.
The Jews therefore said to him
who was cured, “It is the Sabbath
day; it is not lawful for you to
carry your bed.”
He replied to them, “He who
made me well, He said to me,
‘Take up your bed and walk.’”
Then they asked him, “Who is
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the Man who said to you, ‘Take up
your bed and walk’?”
But the one who was healed
did not know who it was, because
Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd
being in that place.
Afterward Jesus found him in
the temple, and said to him, “See,
you have been made well. Sin no
more, lest a worse thing come
upon you.”
The man departed and told the
Jews that it was Jesus who had
made him well.
So therefore the Jews persecuted
Jesus, and sought to kill
Him, because He had done these
things on the Sabbath day.
But Jesus responded to them,
“My Father has been working
until now, and I work.”
Therefore the Jews sought all
the more to kill Him, because He
not only broke the Sabbath, but
also said that God was His Father,
making Himself equal with God.
Then Jesus responded and said
to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
the Son can do nothing of Himself,
but what He sees the Father do;
because whatever He does, the
Son also does in like manner.
Because, the Father loves the
Son, and shows Him all things
that He Himself does; and He will
show Him greater works than
these, that you may marvel.
Because, as the Father raises the
dead and gives life to them, even so
the Son gives life to whom He will.
Because, the Father judges no
one, but has committed all judgment
to the Son,
that everyone should honor the
Son just as they honor the Father.
He who does not honor the Son
does not honor the Father who
sent Him.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he
who hears My word and believes
on Him who sent Me has everlasting
life, and will not come into
condemnation, but has passed
from death into life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, the
hour is coming, and now is, when
the dead will hear the voice of the
Son of God; and those who hear
will live.
Because, as the Father has life
in Himself, so He has granted the
Son to have life in Himself,
and has given Him authority to
execute judgment also, because
He is the Son of Man.
Do not marvel at this; because,
the hour is coming in which all
who are in the graves will hear
His voice
and will come forth; those who
have done good, to the resurrection
of life, and those who have
done evil, to the resurrection of
damnation.
JOHN
I can of Myself do nothing. As
I hear, I judge; and My judgment
is righteous, because I do not seek
My own will but the will of the
Father who has sent Me.
“If I bear witness of Myself, My
witness is not true.
There is another who bears witness
of Me, and I know that the witness
which He witnesses of Me is true.
You sent to John, and he has
borne witness to the truth.
Yet I do not receive testimony
from man, but I say these things
that you may be saved.
He was the burning and shining
lamp, and you were willing for a
time to rejoice in his light.
But I have a greater witness
than John’s; because, the works
which the Father has given Me
to fi nish, the same works that I
do, bear witness of Me, that the
Father has sent Me.
And the Father Himself, who
has sent Me, has testifi ed of Me.
You have neither heard His voice
at any time, nor seen His form.
And you do not have His word
abiding in you, because whom He
sent, Him you do not believe.
Search the Scriptures, because
in them you think you have eternal
life; and these are they which
testify of Me.
But you are not willing to come
to Me that you may have life.
“I do not receive honor
from men.
But I know you, that you do not
have the love of God in you.
I have come in My Father’s
name, and you do not receive Me;
if another comes in his own name,
him you will receive.
How can you believe, who
receive honor from one another,
and do not seek the honor that
comes from the God alone?
Do not think that I will accuse
you to the Father; there is one
who accuses you, that is Moses, in
whom you trust.
Because, if you believed Moses,
you would believe Me; because he
wrote about Me.
But if you do not believe his
writings, how shall you believe
My words?”
CHAPTER
After these things Jesus went
over the Sea of Galilee, which is
the Sea of Tiberias.
Then a large crowd followed
Him, because they saw His miracles
which He performed on those
who were diseased.
And Jesus went up on the mountain,
and there He sat with His
disciples.
Now the Passover, a feast of the
Jews, was near.
Then Jesus lifted up His eyes,
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and seeing a large crowd coming
toward Him, He said to Philip,
“Where shall we buy bread, that
these may eat?”
But this He said to test him,
because He Himself knew what
He would do.
Philip answered Him, “Two hundred
denarii worth of bread is not
suffi cient for them, that every
one of them may have a little.”
One of His disciples, Andrew,
Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,
“There is a boy here who has fi ve
barley loaves and two small fi sh,
but what are they among so many?”
Then Jesus said, “Make the men
sit down.” Now there was a lot
of grass in the place. So the men
sat down, in number about fi ve
thousand.
And Jesus took the loaves, and
when He had given thanks He
distributed them to the disciples,
and the disciples to those who
were sitting down; and likewise of
the fi sh, as much as they wanted.
So when they were fi lled, He
said to His disciples, “Gather up
the fragments that remain, so
that nothing is lost.”
Therefore they gathered them
up, and fi lled twelve baskets with
the fragments of the fi ve barley
loaves which were left over by
those who had eaten.
Then those men, when they had
seen the miracle that Jesus did,
said, “This is truly that Prophet
who is to come into the world.”
Therefore when Jesus perceived
that they were about to come and
take Him by force to make Him
king, He departed again to the
mountain by Himself alone.
Now when evening came, His
disciples went down to the sea,
got into a boat, and went over
the sea toward Capernaum. And
it was already dark, and Jesus had
not come to them.
Then the sea arose because a
great wind was blowing.
So when they had rowed about
twenty or thirty stadiums they
saw Jesus walking on the sea and
drawing near the boat; and they
were afraid.
But He said to them, “It is I; do
not be afraid.”
Then they willingly received
Him into the boat, and immediately
the boat was at the land
where they were going.
On the following day, when
the people who were standing on
the other side of the sea saw that
there was no other boat there,
except that one which His disciples
had entered, and that Jesus
had not entered the boat with His
disciples, but that His disciples
had gone away alone;
(however, other boats came
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from Tiberias, near the place
where they ate bread after the
Lord had given thanks)
therefore when the people
saw that Jesus was not there, nor
His disciples, they also got into
boats and came to Capernaum,
seeking Jesus.
And when they found Him on
the other side of the sea, they
said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You
come here?”
Jesus answered them and said,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek
Me, not because you saw the miracles,
but because you ate of the
loaves and were fi lled.
Do not labor for the food which
perishes, but for the food which
endures to everlasting life, which
the Son of Man will give you,
because God the Father has set
His seal on Him.”
Then they said to Him, “What
shall we do, that we may work the
works of God?”
Jesus answered and said to
them, “This is the work of God,
that you believe on Him whom He
has sent.”
Therefore they said to Him,
“What sign shall You perform
then, that we may see it and believe
You? What work shall You do?
Our fathers ate the manna in
the desert; as it is written, ‘He gave
them bread from heaven to eat.’”
Then Jesus said to them, “Truly,
truly, I say to you, Moses did not
give you the bread from heaven,
but My Father gives you the true
bread from heaven.
Because, the bread of God is He
who comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world.”
Then they said to Him, “Lord,
give us this bread always.”
And Jesus said to them, “I am
the bread of life. He who comes to
Me will never hunger, and he who
believes on Me will never thirst.
But I said to you that you have
seen Me and yet do not believe.
All that the Father gives Me
will come to Me, and the one who
comes to Me I will by no means
cast out.
Because, I came down from
heaven, not to do My own will,
but the will of Him who sent Me.
And this is the will of the Father
who sent Me, that of all He has
given Me I should lose nothing,
but should raise it up again at the
last day.
And this is the will of Him who
sent Me, that everyone who sees
the Son and believes on Him may
have everlasting life; and I will
raise him up at the last day.”
The Jews then complained
about Him, because He said, “I am
the bread which came down from
heaven.”
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And they said, “Is not this Jesus,
the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know? How is it
then that He says, ‘I came down
from heaven’?”
Jesus therefore responded and
said to them, “Do not murmur
among yourselves.
No one can come to Me unless
the Father who sent Me draws
him; and I will raise him up at the
last day.
It is written in the prophets,
‘And they will all be taught by
God.’ Therefore everyone who
has heard and learned from the
Father comes to Me.
Not that anyone has seen the
Father, except He who is from
God; He has seen the Father.
Truly, truly, I say to you, he
who believes on Me has everlasting
life.
I am the bread of life.
Your fathers ate the manna in
the wilderness, and are dead.
This is the bread which comes
down from heaven, that one may
eat of it and not die.
I am the living bread which
came down from heaven. If anyone
eats of this bread, he will live
forever; and the bread that I will
give is My fl esh, which I will give
for the life of the world.”
The Jews therefore quarreled
among themselves, saying,
“How can this Man give us His
fl esh to eat?”
Then Jesus said to them, “Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless you eat the
fl esh of the Son of Man and drink
His blood, you have no life in you.
Whoever eats My fl esh and drinks
My blood has eternal life, and I will
raise him up at the last day.
Because My fl esh is food indeed,
and My blood is drink indeed.
He who eats My fl esh and
drinks My blood abides in Me, and
I in him.
As the living Father has sent
Me, and I live because of the
Father, so he who eats Me will live
because of Me.
This is the bread which came
down from heaven; not as your
fathers ate the manna, and are
dead. He who eats this bread will
live forever.”
These things He said in the
synagogue as He taught in
Capernaum.
Therefore many of His disciples,
when they heard this, said,
“This is a hard saying; who can
understand it?”
When Jesus knew in Himself
that His disciples complained
about this, He said to them, “Does
this off end you?
What then if you should see the
Son of Man ascend up where He
was before?
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It is the Spirit who gives life; the
fl esh profi ts nothing. The words
that I speak to you, they are spirit,
and they are life.
But there are some of you who
do not believe.” Because, Jesus
knew from the beginning who
they were who did not believe,
and who would betray Him.
And He said, “Therefore I have
said to you that no one can come
to Me unless it has been granted
to him by My Father.”
From that time many of His disciples
went back and walked with
Him no longer.
Then Jesus said to the twelve,
“Do you also want to go away?”
But Simon Peter answered Him,
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You
have the words of eternal life.
Also we believe and are convinced
that You are the Christ,
the Son of the living God.”
Jesus replied to them, “Did I not
choose you twelve, and one of you
is a devil?”
He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the
son of Simon, because it was he
who would betray Him, being one
of the twelve.
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After these things Jesus walked
in Galilee; because, He did not
want to walk in Judea, because
the Jews sought to kill Him.
Now the Jews’ Feast of
Tabernacles was at hand.
His brethren therefore said to
Him, “Depart from here and go
into Judea, that Your disciples
also may see the works that You
are doing.
Because, no one does anything
in secret while he himself seeks to
be known openly. If You do these
things, show Yourself to the world.”
Because even His brethren did
not believe in Him.
Then Jesus said to them, “My
time has not yet come, but your
time is always ready.
The world cannot hate you, but
it hates Me because I testify of it
that its works are evil.
You go up to this feast. I am not
going up to this feast yet, because
My time has not yet fully come.”
When He had said these words
to them, He remained in Galilee.
But when His brethren had
gone up, then He also went up
to the feast, not openly, but as it
were in secret.
Then the Jews sought Him at
the feast, and said, “Where is He?”
And there was much murmuring
among the people concerning
Him. Because, some said, “He is a
good Man”; others said, “No, but
He deceives the people.”
However, no one spoke openly
of Him for fear of the Jews.
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Now about the middle of the
feast Jesus went up into the temple
and taught.
And the Jews marveled, saying,
“How does this Man know letters,
having never studied?”
Jesus answered them and said,
“My doctrine is not Mine, but His
who sent Me.
If anyone will do His will, he
will know concerning the doctrine,
whether it is from God or
whether I speak from Myself.
He who speaks from himself
seeks his own glory; but He who
seeks the glory of the One who
sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness
is in Him.
Did not Moses give you the law,
and yet none of you keeps the
law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”
The people answered and said,
“You have a demon. Who is seeking
to kill You?”
Jesus answered and said to them,
“I did one work, and you all marvel.
Moses therefore gave you circumcision
(not that it is from
Moses, but from the fathers),
and you circumcise a man on the
Sabbath day.
If a man receives circumcision
on the Sabbath day, so that
the law of Moses should not be
broken, are you angry with Me
because I made a man completely
well on the Sabbath day?
Do not judge according to
appearance, but judge with righteous
judgment.”
Now some of them from
Jerusalem said, “Is this not He
whom they seek to kill?
But look! He speaks boldly, and
they say nothing to Him. Do the
rulers actually know that this is
truly the Christ?
However, we know where this
Man is from; but when the Christ
comes, no one knows where He
is from.”
Then Jesus shouted, as He taught
in the temple, saying, “You both
know Me, and you know where
I am from; and I have not come
of Myself, but He who sent Me is
true, whom you do not know.
But I know Him, because I am
from Him, and He sent Me.”
Therefore they sought to take
Him; but no one laid hands on
Him, because His hour had not
yet come.
And many of the people
believed on Him, and said, “When
the Christ comes, will He do more
miracles than these which this
Man has done?”
The Pharisees heard the people
murmuring these things concerning
Him, and the Pharisees and
the chief priests sent offi cers to
take Him.
Then Jesus said to them, “I will
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be with you a little while longer,
and then I go to Him who sent Me.
You will seek Me and not fi nd
Me, and where I am, there you
cannot come.”
Then the Jews said among themselves,
“Where does He intend to
go that we will not fi nd Him? Does
He intend to go to the Dispersion
among the Gentiles and teach the
Gentiles?
What is this thing that He said,
‘You shall seek Me and not fi nd
Me, and where I am, there you cannot
come’?”
During the last day, that great
day of the feast, Jesus stood and
shouted saying, “If anyone thirsts,
let him come to Me and drink.
He who believes on Me, as the
Scripture has said, out of his belly
will fl ow rivers of living water.”
But this He spoke concerning
the Spirit, whom those believing
on Him would receive; because,
the Holy Spirit was not yet given,
because Jesus was not yet glorifi ed.
Therefore many from the people,
when they heard this saying,
said, “Truly this is the Prophet.”
Others said, “This is the Christ.”
But some said, “Shall the Christ
come out of Galilee?
Has not the Scripture said that
the Christ comes from the seed
of David and from the town of
Bethlehem, where David was?”
So there was a division among
the people because of Him.
Now some of them wanted
to take Him, but no one laid
hands on Him.
Then the offi cers came to the
chief priests and Pharisees, and
they said to them, “Why have you
not brought Him?”
The offi cers answered, “No man
ever spoke like this Man!”
Then the Pharisees replied to
them, “Are you also deceived?
Have any of the rulers or the
Pharisees believed on Him?
But these people that do not
know the law are accursed.”
Nicodemus (he who came to
Jesus by night, being one of them)
said to them,
“Does our law judge a man
before it hears him and knows
what he is doing?”
They answered and said to him,
“Are you also from Galilee? Search
and look, because no prophet has
arisen out of Galilee.”
And everyone went to his
own house.
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Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Now early in the morning He
came again into the temple, and
all the people came to Him; and
He sat down and taught them.
Then the scribes and Pharisees
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brought to Him a woman caught
in adultery. And when they had
set her in the midst,
they said to Him, “Teacher, this
woman was caught in adultery, in
the very act.
Now Moses, in the law, commanded
us that such should be
stoned. But what do You say?”
This they said, testing Him, that
they might have something of
which to accuse Him. But Jesus
stooped down and wrote on the
ground with His fi nger, as though
He did not hear them.
So when they continued asking
Him, He raised Himself up and
said to them, “He who is without
sin among you, let him throw a
stone at her fi rst.”
And again He stooped down and
wrote on the ground.
Then those who heard it, being
convicted by their own conscience,
went out one by one, beginning
with the oldest even to the last.
And Jesus was left alone, and the
woman standing in the midst.
When Jesus had lifted Himself
up and saw no one but the woman,
He said to her, “Woman, where
are those accusers of yours? Has
no one condemned you?”
She said, “No one, Lord.” And
Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn
you; go and sin no more.”
Then Jesus spoke to them again,
saying, “I am the light of the
world. He who follows Me will not
walk in darkness, but will have
the light of life.”
The Pharisees therefore said to
Him, “You bear record of Yourself;
Your record is not true.”
Jesus replied and said to them,
“Though I bear record of Myself,
yet My record is true, because,
I know where I came from and
where I am going; but you do
not know where I come from and
where I am going.
You judge according to the
fl esh; I judge no one.
And yet if I judge, My judgment
is true; because I am not alone,
but I and the Father who sent Me.
It is also written in your law that
the testimony of two men is true.
I am One who bears witness of
Myself, and the Father who sent
Me bears witness of Me.”
Then they said to Him, “Where
is Your Father?” Jesus answered,
“You know neither Me nor My
Father. If you had known Me, you
would have known My Father also.”
These words Jesus spoke in the
treasury, as He taught in the temple;
and no one laid hands on Him,
because His hour had not yet come.
Then Jesus said to them again,
“I am going my way, and you will
seek Me, and will die in your sins.
Where I go you cannot come.”
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So the Jews said, “Shall He kill
Himself, because He says, ‘Where
I go you cannot come’?”
And He said to them, “You are
from beneath; I am from above.
You are of this world; I am not of
this world.
Therefore I said to you that you
will die in your sins; because, if
you do not believe that I am He,
you will die in your sins.”
Then they said to Him, “Who
are You?” And Jesus said to them,
“Just what I have been saying to
you from the beginning.
I have many things to say and
to judge concerning you, but He
who sent Me is true; and I speak
to the world those things which I
heard from Him.”
They did not understand that
He spoke to them of the Father.
Then Jesus said to them, “When
you lift up the Son of Man, then you
will know that I am He, and that I do
nothing of Myself; but as My Father
has taught Me, I speak these things.
And He who sent Me is with Me.
The Father has not left Me alone,
because I always do those things
that please Him.”
As He spoke these words, many
believed on Him.
Then Jesus said to those Jews
who believed on Him, “If you continue
in My word, then you are My
disciples indeed.
And you will know the truth,
and the truth will make you free.”
They replied to Him, “We are
Abraham’s descendants, and have
never been in bondage to anyone.
How can You say, ‘You will be
made free’?”
Jesus answered them, “Truly,
truly, I say to you, whoever commits
sin is a servant of sin.
And a servant does not abide
in the house forever, but the Son
abides forever.
Therefore if the Son makes you
free, you will be free indeed.
“I know that you are
Abraham’s seed, but you seek to
kill Me, because My word has no
place in you.
I speak what I have seen with
My Father, and you do what you
have seen with your father.”
They replied and said to Him,
“Abraham is our father.” Jesus said
to them, “If you were Abraham’s
children, you would do the works
of Abraham.
But now you seek to kill Me, a
Man who has told you the truth
which I heard from God. Abraham
did not do this.
You do the deeds of your
father.” Then they said to Him,
“We were not born of fornication;
we have one Father, even God.”
Jesus said to them, “If God were
your Father, you would love Me,
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because, I proceeded forth and
came from God; nor have I come
of Myself, but He sent Me.
Why do you not understand My
speech? That is because you are
not able to hear My word.
You are of your father the devil,
and the desires of your father you
will do. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and did not abide
in the truth, because there is no
truth in him. When he speaks
a lie, he speaks from his own
resources, because he is a liar and
the father of it.
And because I tell you the truth,
you do not believe Me.
Which of you convicts Me of
sin? And if I tell the truth, why do
you not believe Me?
He who is of God hears God’s
words; therefore you do not hear
them, because you are not of God.”
Then the Jews replied and said
to Him, “Do we not say rightly
that You are a Samaritan and have
a demon?”
Jesus answered, “I do not have
a demon; but I honor My Father,
and you dishonor Me.
And I do not seek My own glory;
there is One who seeks and judges.
Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone
keeps My word he will never
see death.”
Then the Jews said to Him, “Now
we know that You have a demon!
Abraham is dead, and the prophets;
and You say, ‘If anyone keeps
My word he will never taste death.’
Are You greater than our father
Abraham, who is dead? And the
prophets are dead. Who do You
make Yourself out to be?”
Jesus answered, “If I honor
Myself, My honor is nothing. It
is My Father who honors Me, of
whom you say that He is your God.
Yet you have not known Him,
but I know Him. And if I should
say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I would
be a liar like you; but I do know
Him and keep His word.
Your father Abraham rejoiced
to see My day, and he saw it and
was glad.”
Then the Jews said to Him, “You
are not yet fi fty years old, and
have You seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Truly,
truly, I say to you, before
Abraham was, I AM.”
Then they took up stones
to throw at Him; but Jesus hid
Himself and went out of the temple,
going through the midst of
them, and so passed by.
CHAPTER
Now as Jesus passed by, He
saw a man who was blind from
his birth.
And His disciples asked Him,
saying, “Teacher, who sinned, this
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man or his parents, that he was
born blind?”
Jesus answered, “Neither this
man nor his parents sinned, but
that the works of God should be
revealed in him.
I must work the works of Him who
sent Me while it is day; the night is
coming when no one can work.
As long as I am in the world, I am
the light of the world.”
When He had said these things,
He spat on the ground and made
clay with the saliva; and He
anointed the eyes of the blind
man with the clay.
And He said to him, “Go, wash
in the pool of Siloam” (which is
translated, Sent). So he went and
washed, and returned seeing.
Therefore the neighbors and
those who previously had seen
that he was blind said, “Is not this
he who sat and begged?”
Some said, “This is he.” Others
said, “He is like him.” But he said,
“I am he.”
Therefore they said to him,
“How were your eyes opened?”
He answered and said, “A Man
who is called Jesus made clay
and anointed my eyes and said to
me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and
wash.’ So I went and washed, and
I received sight.”
Then they said to him, “Where
is He?” He said, “I do not know.”
They brought him who formerly
was blind to the Pharisees.
Now it was a Sabbath day when
Jesus made the clay and opened
his eyes.
Then the Pharisees also asked him
again how he had received his sight.
He said to them, “He put clay on my
eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
Therefore some of the Pharisees
said, “This Man is not from God,
because He does not keep the
Sabbath day.” Others said, “How
can a man who is a sinner do such
miracles?” And there was a division
among them.
They said to the blind man
again, “What do you say about
Him because He opened your
eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
But the Jews did not believe
concerning him, that he had been
blind and received his sight, until
they called the parents of him
who had received his sight.
And they asked them, saying,
“Is this your son, who you say was
born blind? How then does he
now see?”
His parents answered them and
said, “We know that this is our
son, and that he was born blind;
but by what means he now sees
we do not know, or who opened
his eyes we do not know. He is
of age; ask him. He will speak for
himself.”
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His parents said these things
because they feared the Jews,
because, the Jews had agreed
already that if anyone confessed
that He was Christ, he would be
put out of the synagogue.
Therefore his parents said, “He
is of age; ask him.”
So they again called the man
who was blind, and said to him,
“Give God the praise! We know
that this Man is a sinner.”
He replied and said, “Whether
He is a sinner or not I do not know.
One thing I know: that though I
was blind, now I see.”
Then they said to him again,
“What did He do to you? How did
He open your eyes?”
He answered them, “I have
told you already, and you did not
listen. Why do you want to hear
it again? Do you also want to
become His disciples?”
Then they reviled him and said,
“You are His disciple, but we are
Moses’ disciples.
We know that God spoke to
Moses; as for this fellow, we do not
know where He is from.”
The man responded and said
to them, “Why, this is a marvelous
thing, that you do not know
where He is from; and yet He has
opened my eyes!
Now we know that God does
not hear sinners; but if anyone is
a worshiper of God and does His
will, He hears him.
Since the world began it has
been unheard of that anyone
opened the eyes of one who was
born blind.
If this Man were not from God,
He could do nothing.”
They replied and said to him,
“You were completely born in
sins, and are you teaching us?”
And they threw him out.
Jesus heard that they had
thrown him out; and when He had
found him, He said to him, “Do
you believe on the Son of God?”
He answered and said, “Who
is He, Lord, that I may believe
on Him?”
And Jesus said to him, “You
have both seen Him and it is He
who is talking with you.”
Then he said, “Lord, I believe!”
And he worshiped Him.
And Jesus said, “For judgment
I have come into this world, that
those who do not see may see,
and that those who see may be
made blind.”
Then some of the Pharisees
who were with Him heard these
words, and said to Him, “Are we
blind also?”
Jesus said to them, “If you were
blind, you would have no sin; but
now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore
your sin remains.
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“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who
does not enter the sheepfold by the
door, but climbs up some other way,
the same is a thief and a robber.
But he who enters by the door is
the shepherd of the sheep.
To him the doorkeeper opens,
and the sheep hear his voice; and
he calls his own sheep by name
and leads them out.
And when he brings out his own
sheep, he goes before them; and
the sheep follow him, because
they know his voice.
Yet they will not follow a
stranger, but will fl ee from him,
because they do not know the
voice of strangers.”
Jesus spoke this parable to them,
but they did not understand those
things which He spoke to them.
Then Jesus said to them again,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the
door of the sheep.
All who ever came before Me
are thieves and robbers, but the
sheep did not hear them.
I am the door. If anyone enters
by Me, he will be saved, and will
go in and out and fi nd pasture.
The thief does not come except
to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
I have come that they may have
life, and that they may have it
more abundantly.
“I am the good shepherd. The
good shepherd gives His life for
the sheep.
But he who is a hireling, and
is not the shepherd, who does
not own the sheep, sees the wolf
coming and leaves the sheep and
fl ees; and the wolf catches them
and scatters the sheep.
The hireling fl ees because he
is a hireling and does not care for
the sheep.
I am the good shepherd; and
know My sheep, and am known
by My own.
As the Father knows Me, even
so I know the Father; and I lay
down My life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have which
are not of this fold; them also I
must bring, and they will hear
My voice; and there will be one
fl ock and one shepherd.
“Therefore My Father loves Me,
because I lay down My life that I
may take it again.
No one takes it from Me, but I lay
it down of Myself. I have authority
to lay it down, and I have authority
to take it again. This command
I have received from My Father.”
Therefore there was a division
again among the Jews because of
these sayings.
And many of them said, “He has
a demon and is mad. Why do you
listen to Him?”
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Others said, “These are not the
words of one who has a demon.
Can a demon open the eyes of
the blind?”
Now it was the Feast of
Dedication in Jerusalem, and it
was winter.
And Jesus walked in the temple,
in Solomon’s porch.
Then the Jews surrounded Him
and said to Him, “How long do
You keep us in doubt? If You are
the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Jesus answered them, “I told
you, and you do not believe. The
works that I do in My Father’s
name, they bear witness of Me.
But you do not believe,
because you are not of My
sheep, as I said to you.
My sheep hear My voice, and I
know them, and they follow Me.
And I give them eternal life,
and they will never perish; neither
will anyone snatch them out
of My hand.
My Father, who has given them
to Me, is greater than all; and no
one is able to snatch them out of
My Father’s hand.
I and My Father are one.”
Then the Jews took up stones
again to stone Him.
Jesus responded to them,
“Many good works I have shown
you from My Father. For which of
those works do you stone Me?”
The Jews answered Him, saying,
“For a good work we do not
stone You, but for blasphemy, and
because You, being a Man, make
Yourself God.”
Jesus replied to them, “Is it not
written in your law, ‘I said, “You
are gods”’?
If He called them gods, to whom
the word of God came, and the
Scripture cannot be broken,
do you say of Him whom the
Father has sanctifi ed and sent
into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’
because I said, ‘I am the
Son of God’?
If I do not do the works of My
Father, do not believe Me;
but if I do, though you do not
believe Me, believe the works, that
you may know and believe that
the Father is in Me, and I in Him.”
Therefore they sought again to
seize Him, but He escaped out of
their hand.
And He went away again
beyond the Jordan to the place
where John was baptizing at fi rst,
and there He stayed.
Then many came to Him and
said, “John performed no miracle,
but all the things that John spoke
about this Man are true.”
And many believed on Him there.
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CHAPTER
Now a certain man was sick, named
Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of
Mary and her sister Martha.
It was that Mary who anointed
the Lord with fragrant oil and
wiped His feet with her hair,
whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Therefore the sisters sent to
Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he
whom You love is sick.”
When Jesus heard that, He said,
“This sickness is not to death, but
for the glory of God, that the Son of
God may be glorifi ed through it.”
Now Jesus loved Martha and her
sister and Lazarus.
So, when He heard that he was
sick, He stayed two more days in
the place where He was.
Then after this He said to His disciples,
“Let us go to Judea again.”
His disciples said to Him, “Teacher,
lately the Jews sought to stone You,
and are You going there again?”
Jesus answered, “Are there not
twelve hours in the day? If anyone
walks in the day, he does not
stumble, because he sees the light
of this world.
But if one walks in the night, he
stumbles, because the light is not
in him.”
These things He said, and after
that He said to them, “Our friend
Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may
wake him out of sleep.”
Then His disciples said, “Lord, if
he sleeps he will recover.”
However, Jesus spoke of his
death, but they thought that He
was speaking about taking rest
in sleep.
Then Jesus said to them plainly,
“Lazarus is dead.
And I am glad for your sakes
that I was not there, that you
may believe. Nevertheless let us
go to him.”
Then Thomas, who is called
Didymus, said to his fellow disciples,
“Let us also go, that we may
die with Him.”
So when Jesus came, He found
that he had already been laid in
the tomb four days.
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem,
about fi fteen stadiums away.
And many of the Jews came
to Martha and Mary, to comfort
them concerning their brother.
Now Martha, as soon as she
heard that Jesus was coming,
went and met Him, but Mary was
still sitting in the house.
Then Martha said to Jesus,
“Lord, if You had been here, my
brother would not have died.
But even now I know that
whatever You ask of God, God will
give You.”
Jesus said to her, “Your brother
will rise again.”
Martha said to Him, “I know
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that he will rise again in the resurrection
at the last day.”
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection
and the life. He who
believes in Me, though he may
die, yet he will live.
And whoever lives and believes
in Me will never die. Do you
believe this?”
She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I
believe that You are the Christ,
the Son of God, who would come
into the world.”
And when she had said these
things, she went her way and
secretly called Mary her sister,
saying, “The Teacher has come
and is calling for you.”
As soon as she heard that, she
arose quickly and came to Him.
Now Jesus had not yet come
into the town, but was in the
place where Martha met Him.
Then the Jews who were with
her in the house, and comforting
her, when they saw that Mary
rose up quickly and went out, followed
her, saying, “She is going to
the tomb to weep there.”
Then, when Mary came
where Jesus was, and saw Him,
she fell down at His feet, saying
to Him, “Lord, if You had been
here, my brother would not
have died.”
Therefore, when Jesus saw her
weeping, and the Jews who came
with her weeping, He groaned in
the spirit and was troubled,
and said, “Where have you laid
him?” They said to Him, “Lord,
come and see.”
Jesus wept.
Then the Jews said, “See how
He loved him!”
And some of them said, “Could
not this Man, who opened the
eyes of the blind, also have kept
this man from dying?”
Then Jesus, again groaning in
Himself, came to the tomb. It was
a cave, and a stone lay on it.
Jesus said, “Take away the
stone.” Martha, the sister of him
who was dead, said to Him, “Lord,
by this time he smells, because he
has been dead four days.”
Jesus said to her, “Did I not say
to you that if you would believe
you would see the glory of God?”
Then they took away the stone
from the place where the dead man
was lying. And Jesus lifted up His
eyes and said, “Father, I thank You
that You have heard Me.
And I know that You always
hear Me, but because of the people
who are standing by I said this,
that they may believe that You
sent Me.”
Now when He had spoken these
things, He shouted with a loud
voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
And he who had died came out
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bound hand and foot with graveclothes,
and his face was wrapped
with a cloth. Jesus said to them,
“Loose him, and let him go.”
Then many of the Jews who had
come to Mary, and had seen the
things Jesus did, believed on Him.
But some of them went away to
the Pharisees and told them the
things Jesus had done.
Then the chief priests and the
Pharisees gathered a council and
said, “What shall we do? Because
this Man does many miracles.
If we let Him alone like this,
everyone will believe on Him, and
the Romans will come and take
away both our place and nation.”
And one of them, named
Caiaphas, being the high priest
that year, said to them, “You know
nothing at all,
nor do you consider that it is
expedient for us that one man
should die for the people, and
not that the entire nation should
perish.”
Now this he did not say from
himself; but being high priest
that year he prophesied that Jesus
would die for the nation,
and not for that nation only,
but also that He would gather
together in one the children of
God who were scattered abroad.
Then, from that day on, they
plotted to put Him to death.
Therefore Jesus no longer
walked openly among the Jews,
but went from there into the
country near the wilderness, to
a city called Ephraim, and there
remained with His disciples.
And the Passover of the Jews was
soon at hand, and many went from
the country up to Jerusalem before
the Passover, to purify themselves.
Then they sought Jesus, and
spoke among themselves as they
stood in the temple, “What do
you think, that He will not come
to the feast?”
Now both the chief priests and
the Pharisees had given a command,
that if anyone knew where
He was, he should report it, that
they might seize Him.
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Then, six days before the
Passover, Jesus came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was who had been
dead, whom He had raised from
the dead.
There they made Him a supper;
and Martha served, but Lazarus
was one of those who sat at the
table with Him.
Then Mary took a pound of very
costly oil of spikenard, anointed
the feet of Jesus, and wiped His
feet with her hair. And the house
was fi lled with the fragrance of
the oil.
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But one of His disciples, Judas
Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would
betray Him, said,
“Why was this fragrant oil not
sold for three hundred denarii
and given to the poor?”
This he said, not that he cared
for the poor, but because he was a
thief, and had the money bag; and
carried what was put in it.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone;
she has kept this for the day of
My burial.
Because, the poor you have with
you always, but Me you do not
have always.”
Now a great many of the Jews
knew that He was there; and
they came, not for Jesus’ sake
only, but that they might also
see Lazarus, whom He had raised
from the dead.
But the chief priests plotted to
put Lazarus to death also,
because on account of him
many of the Jews went away and
believed on Jesus.
On the next day many people
who had come to the feast, when
they heard that Jesus was coming
to Jerusalem,
took branches of palm trees
and went out to meet Him, and
shouted: “Hosanna! Blessed is the
King of Israel who comes in the
name of the LORD!”
Then Jesus, when He had found
a young donkey, sat on it; as it is
written:
“Fear not, daughter of Zion;
behold, your King is coming, sitting
on a donkey’s colt.”
His disciples did not understand
these things at fi rst; but when
Jesus was glorifi ed, then they
remembered that these things
were written about Him and that
they had done these things to Him.
Therefore the people, who were
with Him when He called Lazarus
out of his tomb and raised him
from the dead, bore record.
For this reason the people also
met Him, because they heard that
He had done this miracle.
The Pharisees therefore said
among themselves, “You see
that you are accomplishing
nothing. Look, the world has
gone after Him!”
Now there were certain Greeks
among those who came up to
worship at the feast.
So they came to Philip, who
was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and
asked him, saying, “Sir, we desire
to see Jesus.”
Philip came and told Andrew,
and in turn Andrew and Philip
told Jesus.
But Jesus replied to them, saying,
“The hour has come that the
Son of Man should be glorifi ed.
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a
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grain of wheat falls into the ground
and dies, it remains alone; but if it
dies, it produces much grain.
He who loves his life will lose it,
and he who hates his life in this
world will keep it for eternal life.
If anyone serves Me, let him
follow Me; and where I am, there
My servant will be also. If anyone
serves Me, him My Father
will honor.
“Now My soul is troubled, and
what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me
from this hour’? But for this purpose
I came to this hour.
Father, glorify Your name.” Then
a voice came from heaven, saying,
“I have both glorifi ed it and will
glorify it again.”
Therefore the people who
stood by and heard it said that it
had thundered. Others said, “An
angel has spoken to Him.”
Jesus responded and said, “This
voice did not come because of Me,
but for your sake.
Now is the judgment of this
world; now the ruler of this world
will be cast out.
And I, if I am lifted up from the
earth, will draw all men to Me.”
This He said, signifying by what
death He would die.
The people responded to Him,
“We have heard from the law that
the Christ remains forever; and
how can You say, ‘The Son of Man
must be lifted up’? Who is this
Son of Man?”
Then Jesus said to them, “A
little while longer the light is
with you. Walk while you have
the light, lest darkness overtake
you; because he who walks in
darkness does not know where
he is going.
While you have the light,
believe in the light, that you may
be children of light.” These things
Jesus spoke, and departed, and
hid Himself from them.
But although He had done so
many miracles before them, they
did not believe in Him,
that the word of Isaiah the
prophet might be fulfi lled, which
he spoke: “Lord, who has believed
our report? And to whom has the
arm of the LORD been revealed?”
Therefore they could not
believe, because Isaiah said again:
“He has blinded their eyes and
hardened their hearts, lest they
should see with their eyes, lest
they should understand with their
hearts and be converted, so that I
should heal them.”
These things Isaiah said when
he saw His glory and spoke of Him.
Nevertheless even among the
rulers many believed on Him, but
because of the Pharisees they did
not confess Him, lest they should
be put out of the synagogue;
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because they loved the praise of
men more than the praise of God.
Jesus shouted and said, “He
who believes on Me, believes not
on Me but on Him who sent Me.
And he who sees Me sees Him
who sent Me.
I have come as a light into the
world, that whoever believes on
Me should not abide in darkness.
And if anyone hears My words
and does not believe, I do not
judge him; because I did not
come to judge the world but to
save the world.
He who rejects Me, and does
not receive My words, has that
which judges him, the word that
I have spoken, that will judge him
in the last day.
Because, I have not spoken from
Myself; but the Father who sent Me
gave Me a commandment, what I
should say and what I should speak.
And I know that His command is
everlasting life. Therefore, whatever
I speak, just as the Father
said to Me, so I speak.”
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Now before the Feast of the
Passover, when Jesus knew that
His hour had come that He should
depart from this world to the
Father, having loved His own who
were in the world, He loved them
to the end.
And supper being ended,
the devil having already put it
into the heart of Judas Iscariot,
Simon’s son, to betray Him,
Jesus, knowing that the Father
had given all things into His
hands, and that He had come
from God and was going to God,
He rose from supper and laid
aside His clothes, took a towel and
tied it around his waist.
After that, He poured water into
a basin and began to wash the disciples’
feet, and to wipe them with
the towel with which He wrapped
around Himself.
Then He came to Simon Peter.
And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are
You washing my feet?”
Jesus answered and said to
him, “What I am doing you do
not understand now, but you will
know after this.”
Peter said to Him, “You shall
never wash my feet!” Jesus replied
to him, “If I do not wash you, you
have no part with Me.”
Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord,
not my feet only, but also my
hands and my head!”
Jesus said to him, “He who is
washed needs only to wash his
feet, but is completely clean; and
you are clean, but not all of you.”
Because, He knew who would
betray Him; therefore He said,
“You are not all clean.”
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So when He had washed their
feet, taken His clothes, and sat
down again, He said to them, “Do
you know what I have done to you?
You call Me Teacher and Lord,
and you say well, because so I am.
If I then, your Lord and Teacher,
have washed your feet, you also
ought to wash one another’s feet.
Because, I have given you an
example, that you should do as I
have done to you.
Truly, truly, I say to you, a
servant is not greater than his
master; nor is he who is sent
greater than he who sent him.
If you know these things,
blessed are you if you do them.
“I do not speak concerning all of
you. I know whom I have chosen;
but that the Scripture may be fulfi
lled, ‘He who eats bread with Me
has lifted up his heel against Me.’
Now I tell you before it comes,
that when it does come to pass,
you may believe that I am He.
Truly, truly, I say to you, he
who receives whomever I send
receives Me; and he who receives
Me receives Him who sent Me.”
When Jesus had said these things,
He was troubled in spirit, and testifi
ed and said, “Truly, truly, I say to
you, one of you will betray Me.”
Then the disciples looked
at one another, dubious about
whom He spoke.
Now there was leaning on Jesus’
bosom one of His disciples, whom
Jesus loved.
Simon Peter therefore motioned
to him to ask who it was of whom
He spoke.
Then, leaning back on Jesus’
breast, he said to Him, “Lord,
who is it?”
Jesus answered, “It is he to
whom I will give a piece of bread
when I have dipped it.” And having
dipped the bread, He gave it to
Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
Now after the piece of bread,
Satan entered him. Then Jesus
said to him, “What you do, do
quickly.”
But no one at the table knew for
what reason He said this to him.
Because, some of them thought,
because Judas had the money bag,
that Jesus had said to him, “Buy
those things we need for the feast,”
or that he should give something
to the poor.
Having received the piece of
bread, he then went out immediately.
And it was night.
So, when he had gone out, Jesus
said, “Now the Son of Man is glorifi
ed, and God is glorifi ed in Him.
If God is glorifi ed in Him, God
will also glorify Him in Himself,
and will glorify Him immediately.
Little children, I will be with
you a little while longer. You will
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seek Me; and as I said to the Jews,
‘Where I am going, you cannot
come,’ so now I say to you.
A new commandment I give to
you, that you love one another;
as I have loved you, that you also
love one another.
By this everyone will know that
you are My disciples, if you have
love for one another.”
Simon Peter said to Him,
“Lord, where are You going?”
Jesus answered him, “Where
I am going you cannot follow
Me now, but you will follow Me
afterward.”
Peter said to Him, “Lord, why
can I not follow You now? I will
lay down my life for Your sake.”
Jesus answered him, “Will you
lay down your life for My sake?
Truly, truly, I say to you, the
rooster will not crow until you
have denied Me three times.
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“Let not your heart be troubled;
you believe in God, believe
also in Me.
In My Father’s house are many
mansions; if it were not so, I would
have told you. I go to prepare a
place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again and
receive you to Myself; that where
I am, there you may be also.
And where I go you know, and
the way you know.”
Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we
do not know where You are going,
and how can we know the way?”
Jesus said to him, “I am the
way, the truth, and the life. No
one comes to the Father except
through Me.
“If you had known Me, you
would have known My Father
also; and from now on you know
Him and have seen Him.”
Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us
the Father, and it is enough for us.”
Jesus said to him, “Have I been
with you for such a long a time,
and yet you have not known Me,
Philip? He who has seen Me has
seen the Father; so how can you
say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Do you not believe that I am in
the Father, and the Father in Me?
The words that I speak to you I do
not speak from Myself; but the
Father who dwells in Me, He does
the works.
Believe Me that I am in the
Father and the Father in Me, or
else believe Me for the sake of the
works themselves.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he
who believes on Me, the works
that I do he will do also; and
greater works than these he will
do, because I go to My Father.
And whatever you ask in My
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name, that I will do, that the
Father may be glorifi ed in the Son.
If you shall ask anything in My
name, I will do it.
“If you love Me, keep My
commandments.
And I will pray the Father,
and He will give you another
Comforter, that He may abide
with you forever;
that is the Spirit of truth, whom
the world cannot receive, because
it neither sees Him nor knows Him;
but you know Him, because He
dwells with you and will be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless;
I will come to you.
“Yet a little while longer and
the world will see Me no more,
but you see Me. Because I live, you
will live also.
At that day you will know that
I am in My Father, and you in Me,
and I in you.
He who has My commandments
and keeps them, it is he
who loves Me. And he who loves
Me will be loved by My Father,
and I will love him and will manifest
Myself to him.”
Judas (not Iscariot) said to
Him, “Lord, how is it that You will
manifest Yourself to us, and not
to the world?”
Jesus answered and said to him,
“If anyone loves Me, he will keep
My words; and My Father will love
him, and We will come to him and
make Our home with him.
He who does not love Me does
not keep My words; and the word
which you hear is not Mine but
the Father’s who sent Me.
“These things I have spoken to
you while being present with you.
But the Comforter, who is the
Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in My name, He will teach
you all things, and bring all things
to your remembrance, whatever I
have said to you.
Peace I leave with you, My
peace I give to you; not as the
world gives do I give to you. Do
not let your heart to be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.
You have heard Me say to you,
‘I am going away and coming
back to you.’ If you loved Me, you
would rejoice because I said, ‘I am
going to the Father,’ because My
Father is greater than I.
“And now I have told you before
it comes to pass, that when it does
come to pass, you may believe.
I will no longer talk much with
you, because the ruler of this
world is coming, and he has nothing
in Me.
But that the world may know
that I love the Father, and just as the
Father gave Me commandment, so
I do. Arise, let us go from here.
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“I am the true vine, and My
Father is the vinedresser.
Every branch in Me that does not
bear fruit He takes away; and every
branch that bears fruit He prunes,
that it may bear more fruit.
Now you are clean because of the
word which I have spoken to you.
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
unless it abides in the vine, neither
can you, unless you abide in Me.
“I am the vine, you are the
branches. He who abides in Me,
and I in him, the same bears much
fruit; because without Me you can
do nothing.
If anyone does not abide in Me,
he is cast out as a branch and is
withered; and people gather them
and throw them into the fi re, and
they are burned.
If you abide in Me, and My words
abide in you, you will ask what you
desire, and it will be done to you.
By this My Father is glorifi ed,
that you bear much fruit; so you
will be My disciples.
“As the Father has loved Me, I
also have loved you; continue in
My love.
If you keep My commandments,
you will abide in My love, just as I
have kept My Father’s commandments
and abide in His love.
“These things I have spoken to
you, that My joy may remain in
you, and that your joy may be full.
This is My commandment, that
you love one another as I have
loved you.
No one has greater love than
this, that he lay down his life for
his friends.
You are My friends if you do
whatever I command you.
No longer do I call you servants,
because a servant does not know
what his master is doing; but I
have called you friends, because all
things that I have heard from My
Father I have made known to you.
You did not choose Me, but I
chose you and appointed you that
you should go and bear fruit, and
that your fruit should remain,
that whatever you ask the Father
in My name He may give you.
These things I command you,
that you love one another.
“If the world hates you, you know
that it hated Me before it hated you.
If you were of the world, the
world would love its own. But
because you are not of the world,
but I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you.
Remember the word that I said
to you, ‘A servant is not greater
than his master.’ If they persecuted
Me, they will also persecute
you. If they kept My word, they
will keep yours also.
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But all these things they will
do to you for My name’s sake,
because they do not know Him
who sent Me.
If I had not come and spoken
to them, they would have no sin,
but now they have no excuse for
their sin.
He who hates Me hates My
Father also.
If I had not done among them
the works which no one else did,
they would have no sin; but now
they have both seen and hated
both Me and My Father.
But this happened that the word
might be fulfi lled which is written
in their law, ‘They hated Me without
a reason.’
“But when the Comforter
comes, whom I will send to you
from the Father, that is the Spirit
of truth who proceeds from the
Father, He will testify of Me.
And you also will bear witness,
because you have been with Me
from the beginning.
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“These things I have spoken to
you, that you should not be made
to stumble.
They will put you out of the synagogues;
yes, the time is coming
that whoever kills you will think
that he off ers God service.
And these things they will do to
you because they have not known
the Father nor Me.
But these things I have told you,
that when the time comes, you
may remember that I told you
of them. And these things I did
not say to you at the beginning,
because I was with you.
“But now I go away to Him who
sent Me, and none of you asks Me,
‘Where are You going?’
But because I have said these things
to you, sorrow has fi lled your heart.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth.
It is to your advantage that I go
away; because, if I do not go away,
the Comforter will not come to
you; but if I depart, I will send
Him to you.
And when He has come, He will
convict the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment:
of sin, because they do not
believe on Me;
of righteousness, because I go to
My Father and you see Me no more;
of judgment, because the ruler
of this world is judged.
“I still have many things to
say to you, but you cannot bear
them now.
However, when He, the Spirit of
truth, has come, He will guide you
into all truth; because, He will not
speak on from Himself, but whatever
He hears He will speak; and
He will show you things to come.
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He will glorify Me, because
He will take of what is Mine and
declare it to you.
All things that the Father has are
Mine. Therefore I said that He will
take of Mine and declare it to you.
“A little while, and you will not
see Me; and again a little while,
and you will see Me, because I go
to the Father.”
Then some of His disciples said
among themselves, “What is this
that He says to us, ‘A little while,
and you will not see Me; and again
a little while, and you will see Me’;
and, ‘because I go to the Father’?”
They said therefore, “What is
this that He says, ‘A little while’?
We do not know what He is
saying.”
Now Jesus knew that they
desired to ask Him, and He said to
them, “Are you inquiring among
yourselves about what I said, ‘A
little while, and you will not see
Me; and again a little while, and
you will see Me’?
Truly, truly, I say to you that
you will weep and lament, but the
world will rejoice; and you will be
sorrowful, but your sorrow will be
turned into joy.
A woman, when she is in labor,
has sorrow because her hour has
come; but as soon as she has given
birth to the child, she no longer
remembers the anguish, for joy
that a human being has been born
into the world.
Therefore you now have sorrow;
but I will see you again and
your heart will rejoice, and your
joy no one will take from you.
“And in that day you will ask Me
nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you,
whatever you ask the Father in
My name He will give you.
Until now you have asked nothing
in My name. Ask, and you will
receive, that your joy may be full.
“These things I have spoken
to you in proverbs; but the time
is coming when I will no longer
speak to you in proverbs, but I will
tell you plainly about the Father.
In that day you will ask in My
name, and I do not say to you that
I will pray the Father for you;
because the Father Himself
loves you, because you have loved
Me, and have believed that I came
forth from God.
I came forth from the Father
and have come into the world.
Again, I leave the world and go to
the Father.”
His disciples said to Him, “See,
now You are speaking plainly, and
using no proverb!
Now we are sure that You know
all things, and have no need that
anyone should question You. By
this we believe that You came
forth from God.”
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Jesus replied to them, “Do you
now believe?
Behold, the hour is coming,
yes, has now come, that you will
be scattered, each to his own, and
will leave Me alone. And yet I am
not alone, because the Father is
with Me.
These things I have spoken to
you, that in Me you may have
peace. In the world you will have
tribulation; but be of good cheer, I
have overcome the world.”
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Jesus spoke these words, and
lifted up His eyes to heaven, saying:
“Father, the hour has come.
Glorify Your Son, that Your Son
also may glorify You,
as You have given Him authority
over all fl esh, that He should
give eternal life to as many as You
have given Him.
And this is eternal life, that
they may know You, the only
true God, and Jesus Christ whom
You have sent.
I have glorifi ed You on the earth.
I have fi nished the work which
You have given Me to do.
And now, O Father, glorify Me
together with Yourself, with the
glory which I had with You before
the world was.
“I have manifested Your name
to the men whom You have given
Me out of the world. They were
Yours, You gave them to Me, and
they have kept Your word.
Now they have known that all
things which You have given Me
are from You.
Because, I have given to them
the words which You have given
Me; and they have received them,
and have known surely that I
came forth from You; and they
have believed that You sent Me.
“I pray for them. I do not pray
for the world but for those whom
You have given Me, because they
are Yours.
And all Mine are Yours, and
Yours are Mine, and I am glorifi ed
in them.
and now I am no longer in the
world, but these are in the world,
and I come to You. Holy Father,
keep through Your own name
those whom You have given Me,
that they may be one as We are.
While I was with them in the
world, I kept them in Your name.
Those whom You gave Me I have
kept; and none of them is lost
except the son of perdition, that
the Scripture might be fulfi lled.
But now I come to You, and
these things I speak in the world,
that they may have My joy fulfi
lled in themselves.
I have given them Your word;
and the world has hated them
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because they are not of the world,
just as I am not of the world.
I do not pray that You should take
them out of the world, but that You
should keep them from the evil.
They are not of the world, just
as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them through Your
truth. Your word is truth.
Just as You have sent Me into
the world, I also have sent them
into the world.
And for their sakes I sanctify
Myself, that they also may be
sanctifi ed through the truth.
“I do not pray for these only,
but also for those who will believe
on Me through their word;
that they all may be one, as
You, Father, are in Me, and I in
You; that they also may be one
in Us, that the world may believe
that You have sent Me.
And the glory which You gave
Me I have given them, that they
may be one just as We are one:
I in them, and You in Me; that
they may be made perfect in one,
and that the world may know that
You have sent Me, and have loved
them as You have loved Me.
“Father, I desire that they also
whom You have given Me may be
with Me where I am, that they may
behold My glory which You have
given Me; because You loved Me
before the foundation of the world.
O righteous Father! The world
has not known You, but I have
known You; and these have
known that You sent Me.
And I have declared to them
Your name, and will declare it, that
the love with which You loved Me
may be in them, and I in them.”
CHAPTER
When Jesus had spoken these
words, He went out with His disciples
over the Brook Kidron, where
there was a garden, which He and
His disciples entered into.
And Judas, who betrayed Him,
also knew the place; because Jesus
often met there with His disciples.
Then Judas, having received
a detachment of men, and offi -
cers from the chief priests and
Pharisees, came there with lanterns,
torches, and weapons.
Jesus therefore, knowing all
things that would come upon
Him, went forward and said to
them, “Whom are you seeking?”
They answered Him, “Jesus of
Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I
am He.” And Judas, who betrayed
Him, also stood with them.
Now when He said to them, “I
am He,” they drew back and fell to
the ground.
Then He asked them again,
“Whom are you seeking?” And
they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
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Jesus answered, “I have told you
that I am He. Therefore, if you
seek Me, let these go their way,”
that the saying might be fulfi lled
which He spoke, “Of those whom
You gave Me I have lost none.”
Then Simon Peter, having a
sword, drew it and struck the
high priest’s servant, and cut off
his right ear. The servant’s name
was Malchus.
So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your
sword into the sheath. The cup
which My Father has given Me,
should I not drink it?”
Then the detachment of troops
and the captain and the offi cers
of the Jews arrested Jesus and
bound Him.
And they led Him away to
Annas fi rst, because he was the
father in law of Caiaphas who was
high priest that year.
Now it was Caiaphas who advised
the Jews that it was expedient that
one man should die for the people.
And Simon Peter followed
Jesus, and so did another disciple.
Now that disciple was known to
the high priest, and went with
Jesus into the courtyard of the
high priest.
But Peter stood at the door outside.
Then the other disciple, who
was known to the high priest, went
out and spoke to her who kept the
door, and brought Peter in.
Then the servant girl who kept
the door said to Peter, “You are
not also one of this Man’s disciples,
are you?” He said, “I am not.”
Now the servants and offi cers
who had made a fi re of coals
stood there, because it was cold,
and they warmed themselves.
And Peter stood with them and
warmed himself.
The high priest then asked
Jesus about His disciples and of
His doctrine.
Jesus answered him, “I spoke
openly to the world. I always
taught in synagogue and in the
temple, where the Jews always
meet, and in secret I have said
nothing.
Why do you ask Me? Ask those
who have heard Me what I said
to them. Indeed they know what
I said.”
And when He had said these
things, one of the offi cers who
stood by struck Jesus with the
palm of his hand, saying, “Do You
answer the high priest like that?”
Jesus answered him, “If I have
spoken evil, bear witness of the
evil; but if well, why do you
strike Me?”
Now Annas had sent Him bound
to Caiaphas the high priest.
Now Simon Peter stood and
warmed himself. Therefore they
said to him, “Are you not also one
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of His disciples?” He denied it and
said, “I am not!”
One of the servants of the high
priest, being a relative of him whose
ear Peter cut off , said, “Did I not
see you in the garden with Him?”
Peter then denied again; and
immediately the rooster crowed.
Then they led Jesus from
Caiaphas to the judgment hall, and
it was early. But they themselves
did not go into the judgment hall,
lest they should be defi led, but
that they might eat the Passover.
Pilate then went out to them
and said, “What accusation do
you bring against this Man?”
They answered and said to him,
“If He were not an evildoer, we
would not have delivered Him up
to you.”
Then Pilate said to them, “You
take Him and judge Him according
to your law.” Therefore the
Jews said to him, “It is not lawful
for us to put anyone to death,”
that the saying of Jesus might
be fulfi lled which He spoke, signifying
by what death He would die.
Then Pilate entered the judgment
hall again, called Jesus, and
said to Him, “Are You the King of
the Jews?”
Jesus answered him, “Are you
speaking for yourself about this,
or did others tell you this concerning
Me?”
Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew?
Your own nation and the chief
priests have delivered You to me.
What have You done?”
Jesus answered, “My kingdom
is not of this world. If My
kingdom were of this world, My
servants would fi ght, so that I
would not be delivered to the
Jews; but now My kingdom is not
from here.”
Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are
You a king then?” Jesus answered,
“You say rightly that I am a king.
For this reason I was born, and for
this reason I have come into the
world, that I should bear witness
to the truth. Everyone who is of
the truth hears My voice.”
Pilate said to Him, “What is
truth?” And when he had said
this, he went out again to the
Jews, and said to them, “I fi nd no
fault in Him at all.
“But you have a custom that I
should release someone to you
at the Passover. Do you therefore
want me to release to you the
King of the Jews?”
Then they all shouted again, saying,
“Not this Man, but Barabbas!”
Now Barabbas was a robber.
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So then Pilate took Jesus and
scourged Him.
And the soldiers twisted a crown
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of thorns and put it on His head,
and they put a purple robe on Him.
Then they said, “Hail, King of
the Jews!” And they struck Him
with their hands.
Then Pilate then went out
again, and said to them, “Behold,
I am bringing Him out to you,
that you may know that I fi nd no
fault in Him.”
Then Jesus came out, wearing
the crown of thorns and the purple
robe. And Pilate said to them,
“Behold the Man!”
Therefore, when the chief
priests and offi cers saw Him, they
shouted out, saying, “Crucify Him,
crucify Him!” Pilate said to them,
“You take Him and crucify Him,
because I fi nd no fault in Him.”
The Jews replied to him, “We
have a law, and according to our
law He ought to die, because He
made Himself the Son of God.”
Therefore, when Pilate heard that
saying, he was the more afraid,
and went again into the judgment
hall, and said to Jesus,
“Where are You from?” But Jesus
gave him no answer.
Then Pilate said to Him, “Are
You not speaking to me? Do You
not know that I have authority to
crucify You, and have authority to
release You?”
Jesus answered, “You could
have no authority at all against
Me unless it had been given you
from above. Therefore the one
who delivered Me to you has the
greater sin.”
From then on Pilate sought to
release Him, but the Jews shouted
out, saying, “If you let this Man
go, you are not Caesar’s friend.
Whoever makes himself a king
speaks against Caesar.”
When Pilate therefore heard
that saying, he brought Jesus out
and sat down in the judgment
seat in a place that is called The
Pavement, but in the Hebrew,
Gabbatha.
Now it was the Preparation
Day of the Passover, and about
the sixth hour. And he said to the
Jews, “Behold your King!”
But they shouted out, “Away
with Him, away with Him! Crucify
Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall
I crucify your King?” The chief
priests answered, “We have no
king but Caesar!”
Then he delivered Him to them
to be crucifi ed. So they took Jesus
and led Him away.
And He, bearing His cross, went
out to a place called the Place of
a Skull, which is called in the
Hebrew, Golgotha,
where they crucifi ed Him, and
two others with Him, one on either
side, and Jesus in the middle.
Now Pilate wrote a title and put
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it on the cross. And the writing
was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE
KING OF THE JEWS.
Then many of the Jews read this
title, because, the place where
Jesus was crucifi ed was near the
city; and it was written in Hebrew,
Greek, and Latin.
So the chief priests of the Jews
said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The
King of the Jews,’ but, ‘He said, “I
am the King of the Jews.”’”
Pilate replied, “What I have
written, I have written.”
Then the soldiers, when they had
crucifi ed Jesus, took His clothes
and made four parts, to each soldier
a part, and also His coat. Now
the coat was without seam, woven
from the top in one piece.
Therefore they said among
themselves, “Let us not tear it, but
cast lots for it, whose it shall be,”
that the Scripture might be fulfi
lled which says: “They divided
My clothes among them, and for
My coat they cast lots.” Therefore
the soldiers did these things.
Now there stood by the cross of
Jesus His mother, and His mother’s
sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary Magdalene.
Therefore, when Jesus saw His
mother, and the disciple whom
He loved standing by, He said to
His mother, “Woman, behold
your son!”
Then He said to the disciple,
“Behold your mother!” And from
that hour that disciple took her to
his own home.
After this, Jesus, knowing
that all things were now accomplished,
that the Scripture might
be fulfi lled, said, “I thirst!”
Now a vessel full of vinegar
was sitting there; and they fi lled
a sponge with vinegar, put it on
hyssop, and put it to His mouth.
So when Jesus had received the
vinegar, He said, “It is fi nished!”
He bowed His head, and gave up
His spirit.
Then since it was the
Preparation Day, that the bodies
should not remain on the cross
on the Sabbath day (because that
Sabbath was a high day), the Jews
asked Pilate that their legs might
be broken, and that they might be
taken away.
Then the soldiers came and
broke the legs of the fi rst and of the
other who was crucifi ed with Him.
But when they came to Jesus
and saw that He was already dead,
they did not break His legs.
But one of the soldiers pierced
His side with a spear, and blood
and water came out straight away.
And he who saw it bare record,
and his record is true; and he
knows that he is speaking the
truth, so that you may believe.
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Because these things were done
that the Scripture should be fulfi
lled, “Not one of His bones will
be broken.”
And again another Scripture
says, “They will look on Him
whom they pierced.”
After this, Joseph of Arimathea,
being a disciple of Jesus, but
secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked
Pilate that he might take away the
body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him
permission. So he came and took
the body of Jesus.
And Nicodemus, who at fi rst
came to Jesus by night, also
came, bringing a mixture of
myrrh and aloes, weighing about
a hundred pounds.
Then they took the body of
Jesus, and bound it in strips of
linen with the spices, as the custom
of the Jews is to bury.
Now in the place where He
was crucifi ed there was a garden,
and in the garden a new tomb in
which no one had yet been laid.
So there they laid Jesus, because
of the Jews’ Preparation Day,
because the tomb was nearby.
CHAPTER
The fi rst day of the week Mary
Magdalene came to the tomb
early, while it was still dark, and
saw that the stone had been taken
away from the tomb.
Then she ran and came to Simon
Peter, and to the other disciple,
whom Jesus loved, and said to
them, “They have taken away the
Lord out of the tomb, and we do not
know where they have laid Him.”
Peter therefore went out, and
the other disciple, and came to
the tomb.
So they both ran together, and
the other disciple outran Peter
and came to the tomb fi rst.
And he, stooping down and looking
in, saw the linen cloths lying
there; yet he did not go in.
Then Simon Peter came, following
him, and went into the
tomb; and he saw the linen
cloths lying there,
and the handkerchief that had
been around His head, not lying
with the linen cloths, but folded
together in a place by itself.
Then the other disciple, who
came to the tomb fi rst, went in
also; and he saw and believed.
Because, as yet they did not
know the Scripture, that He must
rise again from the dead.
Then the disciples went away
again to their own homes.
But Mary stood outside by the
tomb weeping, and as she wept
she stooped down and looked into
the tomb.
And she saw two angels in
white sitting, one at the head and
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the other at the feet, where the
body of Jesus had laid.
Then they said to her, “Woman,
why are you weeping?” She said
to them, “Because they have
taken away my Lord, and I do not
know where they have laid Him.”
Now when she had said this,
she turned around and saw Jesus
standing there, and did not know
that it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, “Woman, why
are you weeping? Whom are you
seeking?” She, supposing Him to
be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir,
if You have carried Him away, tell
me where You have laid Him, and
I will take Him away.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned and said to Him,
“Rabboni!” (which is to say,
Teacher).
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling
to Me, because, I have not yet
ascended to My Father; but go to
My brethren and say to them, ‘I
am ascending to My Father and
your Father, and to My God and
your God.’”
Mary Magdalene came and told
the disciples that she had seen
the Lord, and that He had spoken
these things to her.
Then, the same day at evening,
being the fi rst day of the week,
when the doors were shut where
the disciples were assembled, for
fear of the Jews, Jesus came and
stood in the midst, and said to
them, “Peace be with you.”
And when He had said this, He
showed them His hands and His
side. Then the disciples rejoiced
when they saw the Lord.
So Jesus said to them again,
“Peace be to you! As My Father has
sent Me, so I also send you.”
And when He had said this,
He breathed on them, and said to
them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
If you forgive the sins of any,
they are forgiven them; and if you
retain the sins of any, they are
retained.”
Now Thomas, called Didymus,
one of the twelve, was not with
them when Jesus came.
The other disciples therefore
said to him, “We have seen
the Lord.” But he said to them,
“Unless I see in His hands the
print of the nails, and put my fi nger
into the print of the nails, and
put my hand into His side, I will
not believe.”
And after eight days His disciples
were again inside, and
Thomas with them. Then Jesus
came, the doors being shut, and
stood in the midst, and said,
“Peace be to you!”
Then He said to Thomas, “Reach
your fi nger here, and look at My
hands; and reach your hand here,
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and put it into My side. Do not be
faithless, but believing.”
And Thomas replied and said to
Him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus said to him, “Thomas,
because you have seen Me, you
have believed. Blessed are those
who have not seen and yet have
believed.”
And truly Jesus did many other
signs in the presence of His disciples,
which are not written in this
book;
but these are written that
you may believe that Jesus is
the Christ, the Son of God, and
that believing you may have life
through His name.
CHAPTER
After these things Jesus showed
Himself again to the disciples at
the Sea of Tiberias, and in this
way He showed Himself:
Simon Peter, Thomas called
Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in
Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and
two others of His disciples were
together.
Simon Peter said to them, “I am
going fi shing.” They said to him,
“We are going with you also.”
They went out and immediately
got into the boat, and that night
they caught nothing.
But when the morning had now
come, Jesus stood on the shore;
but the disciples did not know
that it was Jesus.
Then Jesus said to them,
“Children, have you any food?”
They answered Him, “No.”
And He said to them, “Cast the net
on the right side of the boat, and
you will fi nd some.” So they cast,
and now they were not able to draw
it in because of the multitude of fi sh.
Therefore that disciple whom
Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the
Lord!” Now when Simon Peter
heard that it was the Lord, he put
on his fi sherman’s coat (because
he had removed it), and plunged
himself into the sea.
But the other disciples came in
the little boat (because they were
not far from land, but about two
hundred cubits), dragging the net
with fi sh.
Then, as soon as they had come to
land, they saw a fi re of coals there,
and fi sh laid on it, and bread.
Jesus said to them, “Bring some
of the fi sh which you have just
caught.”
Simon Peter went up and
dragged the net to land, full of
large fi sh, one hundred and fi fty
three; and although there were so
many, the net was not broken.
Jesus said to them, “Come and
eat.” Yet none of the disciples
dared ask Him, “Who are You?”
Knowing that it was the Lord.
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Jesus then came and took the
bread and gave it to them, and
likewise the fi sh.
This is now the third time Jesus
showed Himself to His disciples
after He was risen from the dead.
So when they had eaten, Jesus
said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son
of Jonah, do you love Me more
than these?” He said to Him, “Yes,
Lord; You know that I love You.”
He said to him, “Feed My lambs.”
He said to him again a second
time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you
love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes,
Lord; You know that I love You.”
He said to him, “Feed My sheep.”
He said to him the third time,
“Simon, son of Jonah, do you love
Me?” Peter was grieved because
He said to him the third time, “Do
you love Me?” And he said to Him,
“Lord, You know all things; You
know that I love You.” Jesus said
to him, “Feed My sheep.
Truly, truly, I say to you, when
you were younger, you girded
yourself and walked where you
desired; but when you are old, you
will stretch out your hands, and
another will gird you and carry
you where you do not desire.”
This He spoke, signifying by
what death he would glorify God.
And when He had spoken this, He
said to him, “Follow Me.”
Then Peter, turning around,
saw the disciple whom Jesus loved
following, who also had leaned
on His breast at the supper, and
said, “Lord, who is the one who
betrays You?”
Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus,
“Lord, what shall this man do?”
Jesus said to him, “If I will that
he remains until I come, what is
that to you? You follow Me.”
Then this saying went out
among the brethren that this disciple
would not die. Yet Jesus did
not say to him that he would not
die, but, “If I will that he remain
until I come, what is that to you?”
This is the disciple who testifi es
of these things, and wrote these
things; and we know that his testimony
is true.
And there are also many other
things that Jesus did, which if
every one was written, I suppose
that even the world itself could
not contain the books that would
be written. Amen.
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OF THE APOSTLES
CHAPTER
The former account I made, O
Theophilus, of all that Jesus began
both to do and teach,
until the day in which He was
taken up, after He through the
Holy Spirit had given commandments
to the apostles whom He
had chosen,
to whom He also presented
Himself alive after His passion by
many infallible proofs, being seen
by them for forty days and speaking
of the things pertaining to the
kingdom of God.
And being assembled together
with them, commanded them
that they should not depart from
Jerusalem, but to wait for the
Promise of the Father, “which,” He
said, “you have heard from Me;
because, John truly baptized
with water, but you will be baptized
with the Holy Spirit not
many days from now.”
Therefore, when they had come
together, they asked Him, saying,
“Lord, will You at this time restore
again the kingdom to Israel?”
And He said to them, “It is not
for you to know the times or the
seasons which the Father has put
in His own authority.
But you will receive power when
the Holy Spirit has come upon
you; and you will be witnesses to
Me in Jerusalem, and also in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the end
of the earth.”
Now when He had spoken these
things, while they watched, He
was taken up, and a cloud received
Him out of their sight.
And while they looked steadfastly
toward heaven as He went
up, behold, two men stood by
them in white clothing,
who also said, “You men of
Galilee, why do you stand gazing
up into heaven? This same
Jesus, who is taken up from you
into heaven, will so come in like
manner as you saw Him go into
heaven.”
Then they returned to
Jerusalem from the mount called
Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a
Sabbath day’s journey.
And when they had entered,
they went up into an upper
room where, Peter, James, John,
and Andrew; Philip and Thomas;
Bartholomew and Matthew;
James the son of Alphaeus and
Simon Zelotes, and Judas the
brother of James, were staying.
These all continued with one
accord in prayer and supplication,
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with the women and Mary the
mother of Jesus, and with His
brethren.
And in those days Peter stood
up in the midst of the disciples
(altogether the number of names
was about a hundred and twenty),
and said,
“Men and brethren, this
Scripture had to be fulfi lled, which
the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand
through the mouth of David concerning
Judas, who became a
guide to those who arrested Jesus;
because he was numbered with
us and obtained a part in this
ministry.
Now this man purchased a fi eld
with the wages of iniquity; and
falling headlong, he burst open
in the middle and all his entrails
gushed out.
And it became known to all
those dwelling in Jerusalem; so
that fi eld is called in their own
language, Akel Dama, that is to
say, The Field of Blood.
Because, it is written in the
Book of Psalms: ‘Let his dwelling
place be desolate, and let no one
live in it’; and, ‘Let another take
his position.’
Therefore, of these men who
have accompanied us the entire
time that the Lord Jesus went in
and out among us,
beginning from the baptism
of John to that day when He was
taken up from us, one of these
must be ordained to be a witness
with us of His resurrection.”
And they proposed two: Joseph
called Barsabas, who was surnamed
Justus, and Matthias.
And they prayed and said, “You,
O Lord, who know the hearts of all
men, show which of these two You
have chosen,
that he may take part in this
ministry and apostleship from
which Judas by transgression fell,
that he might go to his own place.”
And they put forward their lots,
and the lot fell on Matthias. And
he was numbered with the eleven
apostles.
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Now when the Day of Pentecost
had fully come, they were all with
one accord in one place.
And suddenly there came a
sound from heaven, as of a rushing
mighty wind, and it fi lled the
entire house where they were
sitting.
Then there appeared to them
divided tongues like as of fi re, and
it sat upon each of them.
And they were all fi lled with the
Holy Spirit and began to speak
with other tongues, as the Spirit
gave them utterance.
And there were dwelling in
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Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from
every nation under heaven.
And when this sound occurred,
the crowd came together, and
were confused, because everyone
heard them speak in his own
language.
Then they were all amazed and
marveled, saying to one another,
“Look, are not all these who speak
Galileans?
And how is it that we hear, each
man in our own language in which
we were born?
Parthians and Medes and
Elamites, those dwelling in
Mesopotamia, in Judea and
Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,
Phrygia and Pamphylia, in
Egypt and in the parts of Libya
adjoining Cyrene, visitors from
Rome, Jews and proselytes,
Cretans and Arabs, we hear them
speaking in our own languages the
wonderful works of God.”
So they were all amazed and
in doubt, saying to one another,
“Whatever could this mean?”
Others mocking said, “They are
full of new wine.”
But Peter, standing up with the
eleven, raised his voice and said
to them, “You men of Judea and
all of you who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and heed
my words.
Because, these are not drunk,
as you suppose, since it is only the
third hour of the day.
But this is what was spoken
through the prophet Joel:
‘And it will come to pass in the
last days, says God, I will pour
out of My Spirit on all fl esh, and
your sons and your daughters will
prophesy, your young men will
see visions, and your old men will
dream dreams.
And on My menservants and
on My maidservants I will pour
out of My Spirit in those days; and
they will prophesy.
I will show wonders in heaven
above and signs in the earth
beneath: Blood and fi re and vapor
of smoke.
The sun will be turned into
darkness, and the moon into
blood, before the coming of the
great and awesome day of the
LORD comes.
And it will come to pass that
whoever calls on the name of the
LORD will be saved.’
“You men of Israel, hear these
words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man
approved by God among you by
miracles, wonders, and signs which
God did by Him in your midst, as
you yourselves also know:
Him, being delivered by the
determined purpose and foreknowledge
of God, you have
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taken, and by wicked hands, have
crucifi ed, and put to death;
whom God raised up, having
loosed the pains of death, because
it was not possible that He should
be held by it.
Because, David says concerning
Him: ‘I foresaw the LORD
always before my face, because,
He is at my right hand, that I may
not be shaken.
Therefore my heart rejoiced,
and my tongue was glad; moreover
my fl esh also will rest in hope.
Because, You will not leave my
soul in the abode of the dead, nor
will You allow Your Holy One to
see corruption.
You have made known to me
the ways of life; You will make me
full of joy in Your presence.’
“Men and brethren, let me
speak freely to you of the patriarch
David, that he is both dead
and buried, and his tomb is with
us to this day.
Therefore, being a prophet, and
knowing that God had sworn with
an oath to him that of the fruit of
his body, according to the fl esh,
He would raise up the Christ to sit
on his throne,
he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning
the resurrection of the
Christ, that His soul was not left
in the abode of the dead, nor did
His fl esh see corruption.
This Jesus God has raised up, of
which we are all witnesses.
Therefore being exalted to the
right hand of God, and having
received from the Father the promise
of the Holy Spirit, He poured out
this which you now see and hear.
“Because, David did not ascend
into the heavens, but he says himself:
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
until I make Your enemies Your
footstool.”’
“Therefore let all the house of
Israel know with certainty that
God has made this same Jesus,
whom you have crucifi ed, both
Lord and Christ.”
Now when they heard this,
they were cut to the heart, and
said to Peter and the rest of the
apostles, “Men and brethren,
what shall we do?”
Then Peter said to them,
“Repent, and let every one of you
be baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins;
and you will receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit.
Because, the promise is to you
and to your children, and to all
who are afar off , that is to as many
as the Lord our God will call.”
And with many other words he
testifi ed and exhorted them, saying,
“Save yourselves from this
perverse generation.”
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Then those who gladly received
his word were baptized; and that
day about three thousand souls
were added to them.
And they continued steadfastly
in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship,
in the breaking of bread,
and in prayers.
Then reverence came upon
every soul, and many wonders and
signs were done by the apostles.
Now all who believed were
together, and had all things in
common,
and sold their possessions and
goods, and divided them among
all the people, as anyone had need.
So continuing daily with one
accord in the temple, and breaking
bread from house to house,
they ate their food with gladness
and simplicity of heart,
praising God and having favor
with all the people. And the Lord
added to the church daily those
who were being saved.
CHAPTER
Now Peter and John went up
together into the temple at the
hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
And a certain man lame from his
mother’s womb was carried, whom
they laid daily at the gate of the
temple which is called Beautiful,
to ask for charitable gifts from
those who entered the temple;
who, seeing Peter and John
about to go into the temple, asked
for charitable gifts.
And fi xing his eyes on him, with
John, Peter said, “Look at us.”
So he gave them his attention,
expecting to receive something
from them.
Then Peter said, “I do not have
any silver and gold, but what I do
have I give you: In the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up
and walk.”
And he took him by the right
hand and lifted him up, and immediately
his feet and ankle bones
received strength.
So he, leaping up, stood and
walked and entered the temple
with them, walking, leaping, and
praising God.
And all the people saw him
walking and praising God.
Then they knew that it was he
who sat begging for charitable
gifts at the Beautiful Gate of the
temple; and they were fi lled with
wonder and amazement at what
had happened to him.
Now as the lame man who was
healed held on to Peter and John,
all the people ran together to
them in the porch which is called
Solomon’s, greatly amazed.
So when Peter saw it, he
responded to the people: “You
men of Israel, why do you marvel
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at this? Or why look so intently at
us, as though by our own power
or holiness we had made this
man walk?
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorifi
ed His Son Jesus, whom you
delivered up and rejected Him in
the presence of Pilate, when he
was determined to let Him go.
But you rejected the Holy One
and the Just, and desired a murderer
to be granted to you,
and killed the Prince of life,
whom God has raised from the
dead, of which we are witnesses.
And His name, through faith
in His name, has made this man
strong, whom you see and know.
Yes, the faith which comes by Him
has given him this perfect soundness
in the presence of you all.
“Yet now, brethren, I know that
you did it in ignorance, as did also
your rulers.
But those things which God
foretold by the mouth of all His
prophets, that Christ would suffer,
He has likewise fulfi lled.
Therefore repent and be converted,
that your sins may be
blotted out, so that times of
refreshing may come from the
presence of the Lord,
and He will send Jesus Christ,
who was preached to you
beforehand,
whom the heaven must receive
until the times of restoration of
all things, which God has spoken
by the mouth of all His holy
prophets since the world began.
Because, Moses truly said to the
fathers, ‘The LORD your God will
raise up for you a Prophet like me
from your brethren. Him you will
hear in all things, whatever He
says to you.
And it will be that every soul
who shall not hear that Prophet
will be utterly destroyed from
among the people.’
Yes, and all the prophets, from
Samuel and those who followed
later, as many as have spoken,
have also foretold these days.
You are the children of the
prophets, and of the covenant
which God made with our fathers,
saying to Abraham, ‘And in your
seed all the families of the earth
will be blessed.’
To you fi rst, God, having raised
up His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless
you, in turning away every one of
you from your iniquities.”
CHAPTER
Now as they spoke to the people,
the priests, the captain of the
temple, and the Sadducees came
upon them,
being greatly disturbed that
they taught the people and
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preached through Jesus the resurrection
from the dead.
And they laid hands on them,
and put them in custody until the
next day, because it was already
evening.
However, many of those who
heard the word believed; and the
number of the men was about fi ve
thousand.
And it came to pass, on the next
day, that their rulers, elders, and
scribes,
and Annas the high priest,
Caiaphas, John, and Alexander,
and as many as were of the family
of the high priest, were gathered
together at Jerusalem.
And when they had set them in
the midst, they asked, “By what
authority or by what name have
you done this?”
Then Peter, fi lled with the Holy
Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of
the people and elders of Israel:
If we this day are examined for
the good deed done to the helpless
man, by what means he has
been made well,
let it be known to you all, and
to all the people of Israel, that
by the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom you crucifi ed,
whom God raised from the dead,
that by Him this man stands here
before you whole.
This is the ‘stone which
was rejected by you builders,
which has become the chief
cornerstone.’
Nor is there salvation in any
other, because, there is no other
name under heaven given among
men by which we must be saved.”
Now when they saw the boldness
of Peter and John, and perceived
that they were uneducated and
untrained men, they marveled.
And they recognized them, that
they had been with Jesus.
And looking at the man who had
been healed standing with them,
they could say nothing against it.
But when they had commanded
them to go aside out of the
council, they conferred among
themselves,
saying, “What shall we do to
these men? Because, indeed, that
a notable miracle has been done
by them is evident to all who
dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot
deny it.
But so that it spreads no further
among the people, let us severely
threaten them, that from now on
they speak to no one in this name.”
So they called them and commanded
them not to speak at all
nor teach in the name of Jesus.
But Peter and John replied and
said to them, “Whether it is right
in the sight of God to listen to you
more than to God, you judge.
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Because we cannot but speak
the things which we have seen
and heard.”
So when they had further
threatened them, they let them
go, fi nding no way of punishing
them, because of the people, since
they all glorifi ed God for what
had been done.
Because, the man was over forty
years old on whom this miracle of
healing had been performed.
And being let go, they went
to their own companions and
reported all that the chief priests
and elders had said to them.
So when they heard that, they
raised their voice to God with one
accord and said: “Lord, You are
God, who made heaven and earth
and the sea, and everything that
is in them,
who by the mouth of Your servant
David have said: ‘Why did
the nations rage, and the people
plot vain things?
The kings of the earth took
their stand, and the rulers were
gathered together against the
LORD and against His Christ.’
“Because, truly against Your
holy Child Jesus, whom You have
anointed, both Herod and Pontius
Pilate, with the Gentiles and the
people of Israel, were gathered
together
to do whatever Your hand and
Your purpose determined beforehand
to be done.
And now Lord, look on their
threats, and grant to Your servants
that with all boldness they
may speak Your word,
by stretching out Your hand to
heal, and that signs and wonders
may be done by the name of Your
holy Child Jesus.”
And when they had prayed, the
place where they were assembled
together was shaken, and
they were all fi lled with the Holy
Spirit, and they spoke the word of
God with boldness.
Now the multitude of those
who believed were of one heart
and one soul; neither did anyone
say that any of the things he possessed
was his own, but they had
all things in common.
And with great power the
apostles gave witness to the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus. And
great grace was upon them all.
Nor was there anyone among
them who lacked; because, all
who were possessors of lands or
houses sold them, and brought
the proceeds of the things that
were sold,
and laid them down at the apostles’
feet. And distribution was
made to everyone as they had need.
And Joses, who was surnamed
Barnabas by the apostles
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(which is translated The Son of
Encouragement), a Levite, and of
the country of Cyprus,
having land, sold it, and brought
the money and laid it at the apostles’
feet.
CHAPTER
But a certain man named
Ananias, with Sapphira his wife,
sold a possession,
and kept back part of the proceeds,
his wife also being aware of
it, and brought a certain part and
laid it at the apostles’ feet.
But Peter said, “Ananias, why
has Satan fi lled your heart to lie
to the Holy Spirit and keep back
part of the price of the land?
While it remained, was it not
your own? And after it was sold,
was it not in your own control?
Why have you conceived this
thing in your heart? You have not
lied to men but to God.”
Then Ananias, hearing these
words, fell down and gave up the
spirit. So great fear came upon all
those who heard these things.
And the young men arose and
wrapped him up, carried him out,
and buried him.
Now it was about three hours
later when his wife came in, not
knowing what had happened.
And Peter responded to her,
“Tell me whether you sold the
land for so much?” And she said,
“Yes, for so much.”
Then Peter said to her, “How is it
that you have agreed together to
test the Spirit of the Lord? Look,
the feet of those who have buried
your husband are at the door, and
they will carry you out.”
Then immediately she fell down
at his feet and gave up the spirit.
And the young men came in and
found her dead, and carrying her
out, buried her by her husband.
So great fear came upon all the
church and upon all who heard
these things.
And by the hands of the apostles
many signs and wonders
were done among the people. And
they were all with one accord in
Solomon’s Porch.
Yet none of the rest dared join
them, but the people esteemed
them highly.
And believers were increasingly
added to the Lord, multitudes of
both men and women,
so that they brought the sick
out into the streets and laid them
on beds and couches, that at least
the shadow of Peter passing by
might fall on some of them.
Also a multitude came out from
the surrounding cities to Jerusalem,
bringing sick people and those who
were tormented by unclean spirits,
and they were all healed.
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Then the high priest rose up,
and all those who were with
him (which is the sect of the
Sadducees), and they were fi lled
with indignation,
and laid their hands on the
apostles and put them in the common
prison.
But at night an angel of the
Lord opened the prison doors and
brought them out, and said,
“Go, stand in the temple and
speak to the people all the words
of this life.”
And when they heard that, they
entered into the temple early
in the morning and taught. But
the high priest and those with
him came and called the council
together, with all the elders of the
children of Israel, and sent to the
prison to have them brought.
But when the offi cers came and
did not fi nd them in the prison,
they returned and reported,
saying, “Indeed we found the
prison shut securely, and the
guards standing outside before
the doors; but when we opened
them, we found no one inside!”
Now when the high priest, the
captain of the temple, and the
chief priests heard these things,
they wondered what the outcome
would be.
So one came and told them,
saying, “Look, the men whom you
put in prison are standing in the
temple and teaching the people!”
Then the captain went with the
offi cers and brought them without
violence, because they feared the
people, lest they should be stoned.
And when they had brought
them, they set them before the
council. And the high priest
asked them,
saying, “Did we not strictly
command you that you should not
teach in this name? And look, you
have fi lled Jerusalem with your
doctrine, and intend to bring this
Man’s blood on us!”
But Peter and the other apostles
answered and said: “We ought to
obey God rather than men.
The God of our fathers raised
up Jesus whom you hung on a tree
and murdered.
Him God has exalted to His
right hand to be Prince and Savior,
to give repentance to Israel and
forgiveness of sins.
And we are His witnesses to
these things, and so also is the
Holy Spirit whom God has given
to those who obey Him.”
When they heard this, they
were cut to the heart, and plotted
to kill them.
Then one in the council stood
up, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a
teacher of the law held in respect
by all the people, and commanded
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them to put the apostles outside
for a little while.
And he said to them: “You men
of Israel, take heed to yourselves
what you intend to do regarding
these men.
Because, some time ago Theudas
rose up, claiming to be somebody.
A number of men, about four hundred,
joined him. He was slain,
and all who obeyed him were scattered
and came to nothing.
After this man, Judas of Galilee
rose up in the days of the registration
for taxation, and drew
away many people after him. He
also perished, and everyone who
obeyed him was dispersed.
And now I say to you, keep away
from these men and leave them
alone; because, if this plan or this
work is of men, it will come to
nothing;
but if it is of God, you cannot
overthrow it, lest you even be
found to fi ght against God.”
And they agreed with him,
and when they had called for the
apostles and beaten them, they
commanded that they should not
speak in the name of Jesus, and let
them go.
So they departed from the presence
of the council, rejoicing that
they were counted worthy to suffer
shame for His name.
And daily in the temple, and
in every house, they did not
cease teaching and preaching
Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER
Now in those days, when the
number of the disciples was
multiplying, there arose a complaint
against the Hebrews by
the Hellenists, because their widows
were neglected in the daily
distribution.
Then the twelve summoned the
multitude of the disciples to them
and said, “It is not desirable that
we should leave the word of God
and serve tables.
Therefore, brethren, seek out
from among you seven men of
good reputation, full of the Holy
Spirit and wisdom, whom we may
appoint over this business;
but we will give ourselves continually
to prayer and to the ministry
of the word.”
And the saying pleased the
entire multitude. And they chose
Stephen, a man full of faith and the
Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus,
Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and
Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,
whom they set before the apostles;
and when they had prayed,
they laid their hands on them.
Then the word of God spread,
and the number of the disciples
multiplied greatly in Jerusalem,
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and a large company of the priests
were obedient to the faith.
And Stephen, full of faith and
power, did great wonders and
miracles among the people.
Then there arose some from
what is called the Synagogue
of the Libertines (Cyrenians,
Alexandrians, and those from
Cilicia and Asia), disputing with
Stephen.
And they were not able to resist
the wisdom and the Spirit by
which he spoke.
Then they secretly induced
men to say, “We have heard him
speak blasphemous words against
Moses and against God.”
And they stirred up the people,
the elders, and the scribes; and
they came upon him, seized him,
and brought him to the council.
They also set up false witnesses
who said, “This man does
not cease to speak blasphemous
words against this holy place and
the law;
because, we have heard him
say that this Jesus of Nazareth
will destroy this place and
change the customs which Moses
delivered to us.”
And all who sat in the council,
looking steadfastly at him, saw
his face as though it was the face
of an angel.
CHAPTER
Then the high priest said, “Are
these things so?”
And he said, “Men, brethren, and
fathers, listen: The God of glory
appeared to our father Abraham
when he was in Mesopotamia,
before he dwelt in Haran,
and said to him, ‘Get out of your
country and from your relatives,
and come into the land that I will
show you.’
Then he came out of the land
of the Chaldeans and dwelt in
Haran. And from there, when his
father was dead, He moved him to
this land in which you now dwell.
And He gave him no inheritance
in it, not even enough to set his
foot on. But even when he had no
child, He promised to give it to
him for a possession, and to his
seed after him.
But God spoke in this way: that
his seed would dwell in a foreign
land, and that they would bring
them into bondage and oppress
them four hundred years.
‘And the nation to whom they
will be in bondage I will judge,’
said God, ‘and after that, they
will come out and serve Me in
this place.’
Then He gave him the covenant
of circumcision; and so Abraham
begot Isaac and circumcised him
on the eighth day; and Isaac begot
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Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve
patriarchs.
“And the patriarchs, becoming
envious, sold Joseph into Egypt.
But God was with him
and delivered him out of all his
affl ictions, and gave him favor
and wisdom in the presence of
Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he
made him governor over Egypt
and all his house.
Now a famine and great affl iction
came over all the land of
Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers
found no sustenance.
But when Jacob heard that
there was grain in Egypt, he sent
out our fathers fi rst.
And during the second occasion
Joseph was made known to
his brethren, and Joseph’s family
became known to the Pharaoh.
Then Joseph sent and called his
father Jacob and all his relatives
to him, seventy fi ve people.
So Jacob went down to Egypt;
and died, he and our fathers.
And they were carried back to
Shechem and laid in the tomb
that Abraham bought for a sum
of money from the sons of Hamor,
the father of Shechem.
“But when the time of the
promise drew near which God
had sworn to Abraham, the people
grew and multiplied in Egypt
until another king arose who
did not know Joseph.
This one dealt treacherously
with our people, and oppressed
our forefathers, making them
throw out their babes, so that
they would not live.
During this time Moses was
born, and was very beautiful; and
he was brought up in his father’s
house for three months.
But when he was thrown out,
Pharaoh’s daughter took him
away and brought him up as her
own son.
And Moses was learned in all
the wisdom of the Egyptians, and
was mighty in words and deeds.
“Now when he was forty years
old, it came into his heart to visit
his brethren, the children of Israel.
And seeing one of them suff er
wrongfully, he defended him, and
avenged him who was oppressed,
and struck down the Egyptian.
Because, he supposed that his
brethren would have understood
that God would deliver them
by his hand, but they did not
understand.
And the next day he appeared to
two of them as they were fi ghting,
and tried to reconcile them, saying,
‘Men, you are brethren; why
do you do wrong one to another?’
But he who did his neighbor
wrong pushed him away, saying,
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‘Who made you a ruler and a
judge over us?
Will you kill me as you did the
Egyptian yesterday?’
Then, at this saying, Moses fl ed
and became a foreigner in the
land of Midian, where he begot
two sons.
“And when forty years had
passed, an Angel of the Lord
appeared to him in a fl ame of fi re
in a bush, in the wilderness of
Mount Sinai.
When Moses saw it, he marveled
at the sight; and as he drew
near to observe it, the voice of the
Lord came to him,
saying, ‘I am the God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and
dared not look.
‘Then the LORD said to him,
“Take your sandals off your feet,
because the place where you
stand is holy ground.
I have seen, I have seen the
oppression of My people who
are in Egypt; I have heard their
groaning and have come down
to deliver them. And now come, I
will send you to Egypt.”’
“This Moses whom they
rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a
ruler and a judge?’ is the one God
sent to be a ruler and a deliverer
by the hand of the Angel who
appeared to him in the bush.
He brought them out, after he
had shown wonders and signs
in the land of Egypt, and in the
Red Sea, and in the wilderness
forty years.
“This is that Moses who said to
the children of Israel, ‘The LORD
your God will raise up for you a
Prophet like me from your brethren.
Him you will hear.’
“This is he who was in the congregation
in the wilderness with
the Angel who spoke to him on
Mount Sinai, and with our fathers,
who received the living oracles to
give to us,
whom our fathers would not
obey, but rejected Him. And in their
hearts they returned back to Egypt,
saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods
to go before us; as for this Moses
who brought us out of the land of
Egypt, we do not know what has
become of him.’
And they made a calf in those
days, off ered sacrifi ces to the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their
own hands.
Then God turned and gave
them up to worship the host of
heaven, as it is written in the book
of the Prophets: ‘Did you off er Me
slaughtered animals and sacrifi
ces during the forty years in the
wilderness, O house of Israel?
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But you took up the tabernacle
of Moloch, and the star of your
god Remphan, images which you
made to worship them; and I will
carry you away beyond Babylon.’
“Our fathers had the tabernacle
of witness in the wilderness, as He
had appointed, speaking to Moses,
that he should make it according
to the pattern that he had seen,
which our fathers also, who
came afterwards, brought in
with Joshua into the possession
of the Gentiles, whom God drove
out before the face of our fathers
until the days of David,
who found favor before God
and asked to fi nd a tabernacle for
the God of Jacob.
But Solomon built Him a house.
“However, the Most High does
not dwell in temples made with
hands, as the prophet says:
‘Heaven is My throne, and earth
is My footstool. What house will
you build for Me? says the LORD,
or what is the place of My rest?
Has My hand not made all these
things?’
“You stiff necked and uncircumcised
in heart and ears! You
always resist the Holy Spirit; as
your fathers did, so do you.
Which of the prophets did your
fathers not persecute? And they
have killed those who foretold the
coming of the Just One, of whom
you now have become the betrayers
and murderers,
who have received the law by
the direction of angels and have
not kept it.”
When they heard these things
they were cut to the heart, and they
gnashed at him with their teeth.
But he, being full of the Holy
Spirit, looked up gazing into heaven
and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
standing at the right hand of God,
and said, “Behold! I see the heavens
opened and the Son of Man
standing at the right hand of God!”
Then they shouted out with a
loud voice, stopped their ears,
and ran at him with one accord;
and threw him out of the city
and stoned him. And the witnesses
laid down their clothes at the feet
of a young man named Saul.
And they stoned Stephen as
he was calling on God and saying,
“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Then he knelt down and
shouted out with a loud voice,
“Lord, do not charge them with
this sin.” And when he had said
this, he fell asleep.
CHAPTER
Now Saul was consenting to his
death. And at that time there was
a great persecution against the
church which was at Jerusalem;
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and they were all scattered
throughout the regions of Judea
and Samaria, except the apostles.
And devout men carried Stephen
to his burial, and made great lamentation
over him.
As for Saul, he made havoc of the
church, entering into every house,
and dragging men and women
away, committing them to prison.
Therefore those who were scattered
went everywhere preaching
the word.
Then Philip went down to the
city of Samaria and preached
Christ to them.
And the people with one accord
heeded the things spoken by
Philip, hearing and seeing the
miracles which he did.
Because, unclean spirits, shouting
with a loud voice, came out of
many who were possessed with
them; and many who were paralyzed
and lame were healed.
And there was great joy in
that city.
But there was a certain man
called Simon, who previously
practiced sorcery in the same
city and seduced the people of
Samaria, claiming that he was
some great one,
to whom they all gave heed,
from the least to the greatest, saying,
“This man is the great power
of God.”
And they heeded him because
he had seduced them with his sorceries
for a long time.
But when they believed Philip
as he preached the things concerning
the kingdom of God and
the name of Jesus Christ, both
men and women were baptized.
Then Simon himself also
believed; and when he was baptized
he continued with Philip,
and was amazed, seeing the miracles
and signs which were done.
Now when the apostles who were
at Jerusalem heard that Samaria
had received the word of God, they
sent Peter and John to them,
who, when they had come
down, prayed for them that they
might receive the Holy Spirit.
Because as yet He had fallen
upon none of them. They had
only been baptized in the name of
the Lord Jesus.
Then they laid their hands
on them, and they received the
Holy Spirit.
And when Simon saw that
through the laying on of the apostles’
hands the Holy Spirit was
given, he off ered them money,
saying, “Give me this authority
also, that whoever I lay hands
upon, they may receive the Holy
Spirit.”
But Peter said to him, “Your
money perish with you, because
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you thought that the gift of God
could be purchased with money!
You have neither part nor
portion in this matter, because
your heart is not right in the
sight of God.
Therefore repent of this your
wickedness, and ask God if perhaps
the thought of your heart
may be forgiven you.
Because I perceive that you are
poisoned by bitterness and bound
by iniquity.”
Then Simon replied and said,
“Pray to the Lord for me, that
none of the things which you have
spoken should come upon me.”
So when they had testifi ed and
preached the word of the Lord,
they returned to Jerusalem, and
preached the gospel in many villages
of the Samaritans.
Now an angel of the Lord spoke
to Philip, saying, “Arise and go
toward the south along the road
which goes down from Jerusalem
to Gaza, which is desert.”
So he arose and went. And
behold, a man of Ethiopia,
a eunuch of great authority
under Candace the queen of the
Ethiopians, who had charge of
all her treasury, and had come to
Jerusalem to worship,
was returning, and sitting in
his chariot, was reading Isaiah the
prophet.
Then the Spirit said to Philip,
“Go near and join yourself to this
chariot.”
So Philip ran over to him, and
heard him reading the prophet
Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand
what you are reading?”
And he said, “How can I, unless
someone guides me?” And he
wanted Philip to come up and sit
with him.
The place in the Scripture which
he read was this: “He was led as a
sheep to the slaughter; and as a
lamb before its shearer is silent,
so He did not open His mouth.
In His humiliation His justice
was taken away, and who shall
declare His generation? Because
His life is taken from the earth.”
So the eunuch replied to Philip
and said, “I ask you, of whom does
the prophet say this, of himself or
of some other man?”
Then Philip opened his mouth,
and beginning at this Scripture,
preached Jesus to him.
Now as they went on their way,
they came to some water. And the
eunuch said, “Look, here is water.
What hinders me from being
baptized?”
Then Philip said, “If you believe
with all your heart, you may.” And
he replied and said, “I believe that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
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So he commanded the chariot
to stand still. And they went down
into the water, both Philip and
the eunuch, and he baptized him.
Now when they came up out of
the water, the Spirit of the Lord
caught Philip away, so that the
eunuch did not see him any longer;
and he went on his way rejoicing.
But Philip was found at Azotus.
And passing through, he preached
in all the cities until he came to
Caesarea.
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Then Saul, still breathing threats
and murder against the disciples
of the Lord, went to the high priest
and requested letters from him
to the synagogues of Damascus, so
that if he found any who were of
the Way, whether men or women,
he might bring them bound to
Jerusalem.
As he journeyed he came near
Damascus, and suddenly a light
shone around him from heaven.
Then he fell to the ground,
and heard a voice saying to him,
“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting
Me?”
And he said, “Who are You,
Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am
Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
It is hard for you to kick against
the prods.”
So he, trembling and astonished,
said, “Lord, what do You
want me to do?” Then the Lord
said to him, “Arise and go into the
city, and you will be told what you
must do.”
And the men who journeyed
with him stood speechless, hearing
a voice but seeing no one.
Then Saul arose from the
ground, and when his eyes were
opened he saw no one. But they
led him by the hand and brought
him into Damascus.
And he was without sight for three
days, and neither ate nor drank.
Now there was a certain disciple
at Damascus named Ananias; and
to him the Lord said in a vision,
“Ananias.” And he said, “Behold, I
am here, Lord.”
So the Lord said to him, “Arise
and go to the street which is
called Straight, and inquire at the
house of Judas for one called Saul
of Tarsus, because behold, he is
praying.
And in a vision he has seen a
man named Ananias coming in
and putting his hand on him, so
that he might receive his sight.”
Then Ananias replied, “Lord, I
have heard from many about this
man, how much evil he has done
to Your saints in Jerusalem.
And here he has authority from
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the chief priests to bind all who
call on Your name.”
But the Lord said to him, “Go
your way, because, he is a chosen
vessel of Mine to bear My name
before the Gentiles, kings, and the
children of Israel.
Because, I will show him how
many things he must suff er for
My name’s sake.”
And Ananias went his way and
entered into the house; and putting
his hands on him he said,
“Brother Saul, the Lord, even
Jesus who appeared to you on
the road as you came, has sent
me that you may receive your
sight and be fi lled with the Holy
Spirit.”
And immediately there fell from
his eyes something like scales,
and he received his sight at once;
and he arose and was baptized.
So when he had received food,
he was strengthened. Then Saul
spent some days with the disciples
at Damascus.
And immediately he preached
the Christ in the synagogues, that
He is the Son of God.
Then all who heard him were
amazed, and said, “Is this not he
who destroyed those who called
on this name in Jerusalem, and
has come here for that purpose,
so that he might bring them
bound to the chief priests?”
But Saul increased all the more
in strength, and confounded the
Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving
that this truly is the Christ.
Now after many days were past,
the Jews plotted to kill him.
But their plot became known to
Saul. And they watched the gates
day and night, to kill him.
Then the disciples took him
by night and let him down by the
wall in a basket.
And when Saul had come to
Jerusalem, he tried to join himself
to the disciples; but they were all
afraid of him, and did not believe
that he was a disciple.
But Barnabas took him and
brought him to the apostles. And
he declared to them how he had
seen the Lord on the road, and
that He had spoken to him, and
how he had preached boldly at
Damascus in the name of Jesus.
So he was with them at Jerusalem,
coming in and going out.
And he spoke boldly in the
name of the Lord Jesus and disputed
against the Hellenists, but
they attempted to kill him.
Which when the brethren
found out, they brought him
down to Caesarea and sent him
out to Tarsus.
Then the churches throughout
all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had
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rest and were edifi ed. And walking
in the reverence of the Lord
and in the comfort of the Holy
Spirit, they were multiplied.
Now it came to pass, as Peter
went through every corner of the
country, that he also came down
to the saints who dwelt in Lydda.
There he found a certain man
named Aeneas, who had been
bedridden eight years and was
paralyzed.
And Peter said to him, “Aeneas,
Jesus Christ makes you whole.
Arise and make your bed.” Then
he arose immediately.
So all who dwelt at Lydda and
Sharon saw him and turned to
the Lord.
Now at Joppa there was a certain
disciple named Tabitha,
which is translated Dorcas. This
woman was full of good works and
charitable deeds which she did.
But it happened in those days
that she became sick and died.
When they had washed her, they
laid her in an upper room.
And since Lydda was near Joppa,
and the disciples had heard that
Peter was there, they sent two
men to him, imploring him not to
delay in coming to them.
Then Peter arose and went
with them. When he had come,
they brought him into the
upper room. And all the widows
stood by him weeping, showing
the coats and garments which
Dorcas had made while she was
with them.
But Peter put them all out,
and knelt down and prayed. And
turning himself toward the body
he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she
opened her eyes, and when she
saw Peter she sat up.
Then he gave her his hand and
lifted her up; and when he had
called the saints and widows, he
presented her alive.
And it became known throughout
all Joppa, and many believed
in the Lord.
So it was that he stayed many
days in Joppa with Simon, a tanner.
CHAPTER
There was a certain man in
Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion
of the regiment called the
Italian Regiment,
a devout man and one who
reverenced God with all his
household, who gave many charitable
gifts to the people, and
prayed to God always.
About the ninth hour of the day
he saw clearly in a vision an angel
of God coming in to him, and saying
to him, “Cornelius!”
And when he looked at him, he
was afraid, and said, “What is it,
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Lord?” So he said to him, “Your
prayers and your charitable gifts
have come up as a memorial
before God.
And now send men to Joppa, and
call for one Simon whose surname
is Peter.
He is lodging with Simon, a
tanner, whose house is beside
the sea. He will tell you what you
must do.”
And when the angel who spoke
to him had departed, Cornelius
called two of his household servants
and a devout soldier from
among those who waited on him
continually.
So when he had explained all
these things to them, he sent them
to Joppa.
On the next day, as they went on
their journey and drew near the
city, Peter went up on the housetop
to pray, about the sixth hour.
Then he became very hungry
and wanted to eat; but while
they were preparing, he fell into
a trance
and saw heaven opened and
a certain object just like a great
sheet bound at the four corners,
descending to him and let down
to the earth.
In it were all kinds of four
footed animals of the earth, wild
beasts, creeping things, and birds
of the air.
And a voice came to him, “Rise,
Peter; kill and eat.”
But Peter said, “Not so, Lord!
Because I have never eaten anything
that is common or unclean.”
And a voice spoke to him again
the second time, “What God
has cleansed you must not call
common.”
This was done three times.
And the object was taken up into
heaven again.
Now while Peter wondered
within himself what this vision
which he had seen meant, behold,
the men who had been sent from
Cornelius had made inquiry for
Simon’s house, and stood before
the gate.
And they called and asked
whether Simon, whose surname
was Peter, was lodging there.
While Peter thought about
the vision, the Spirit said to
him, “Behold, three men are
seeking you.
Therefore arise, go down and
go with them, doubting nothing;
because I have sent them.”
Then Peter went down to
the men who had been sent to
him from Cornelius, and said,
“Behold, I am he whom you
seek. What is the reason then
you have come?”
And they said, “Cornelius the
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centurion, a just man, one who
reverences God and has a good
reputation among all the nation
of the Jews, was advised from God
through a holy angel to summon
you to his house, and to hear
words from you.”
Then he invited them in and
lodged them. On the next day
Peter went away with them, and
some brethren from Joppa accompanied
him.
And the following day they
entered into Caesarea. Now
Cornelius was waiting for them,
and had called together his relatives
and close friends.
As Peter was coming in,
Cornelius met him and fell down
at his feet and worshiped him.
But Peter lifted him up, saying,
“Stand up; I myself am also a man.”
And as he talked with him, he
went in and found many who had
come together.
Then he said to them, “You
know how unlawful it is for someone
who is a Jew to keep company
with or go to one of another
nation. But God has shown me
that I should not call any man
common or unclean.
Therefore I came to you without
objection as soon as I was sent for.
I ask, then, for what reason have
you sent for me?”
So Cornelius said, “Four days
ago I was fasting until this hour;
and at the ninth hour I prayed
in my house, and behold, a
man stood before me in bright
clothing,
and said, ‘Cornelius, your
prayer has been heard, and your
charitable gifts are remembered
in the sight of God.
Therefore send away to Joppa
and call Simon here, whose surname
is Peter. He is lodging in
the house of one Simon, a tanner,
beside the sea. When he comes,
he will speak to you.’
So I sent to you immediately, and
you have done well that you came.
Now therefore, we are all present
before God, to hear all the things
commanded you from God.”
Then Peter opened his mouth
and said: “In truth I perceive that
God shows no personal favoritism.
But in every nation whoever
reverences Him and works righteousness
is accepted by Him.
The word which God sent to
the children of Israel, preaching
peace through Jesus Christ, He is
Lord of all,
that word I speak of, you know,
which was proclaimed throughout
all Judea, and began from
Galilee after the baptism which
John preached:
how God anointed Jesus of
Nazareth with the Holy Spirit
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and with power, who went about
doing good and healing all who
were oppressed by the devil,
because God was with Him.
And we are witnesses of all things
which He did both in the land of
the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom
they hung on a tree and murdered.
Him God raised up on the third
day, and showed Him openly,
not to all the people, but to
witnesses chosen before by God,
even to us who ate and drank
with Him after He arose from
the dead.
And He commanded us to
preach to the people, and to testify
that it is He who was ordained
by God to be the Judge of the living
and the dead.
To Him all the prophets give
witness that, through His name,
whoever believes in Him will
receive remission of sins.”
While Peter was still speaking
these words, the Holy Spirit fell
upon all those who heard the word.
And those of the circumcision
who believed were astonished, as
many as came with Peter, because
the gift of the Holy Spirit had been
poured out on the Gentiles also.
Because they heard them speak
with tongues and magnify God.
Then they responded to Peter,
“Can anyone forbid water, that
these should not be baptized who
have received the Holy Spirit just
as we have?”
And he commanded them to be
baptized in the name of the Lord.
Then they asked him to stay a
few days.
CHAPTER
Now the apostles and brethren
who were in Judea heard that the
Gentiles had also received the
word of God.
And when Peter came up to
Jerusalem, those who were of the
circumcision contended with him,
saying, “You went in to uncircumcised
men and ate with them!”
But Peter explained the issue
from the beginning, describing it
to them in sequence, saying:
“I was in the city of Joppa praying;
and in a trance I saw a vision,
an object descending just like a
great sheet, let down from heaven
by four corners; and it came to me.
On which, when I observed it
intently and considered, I saw
four footed animals of the earth,
wild beasts, creeping things, and
birds of the air.
And I heard a voice saying to
me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’
But I said, ‘Not so, Lord! Because
nothing common or unclean has
at any time entered my mouth.’
But the voice replied to me
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again from heaven, ‘What God has
cleansed you must not call that
common.’
Now this was done three
times, and all were drawn up
again into heaven.
And, behold, immediately there
were three men already standing
before the house where I was,
having been sent to me from
Caesarea.
Then the Spirit told me to go
with them, doubting nothing.
Moreover these six brethren
accompanied me, and we entered
the man’s house.
And he told us how he had seen
an angel standing in his house,
who said to him, ‘Send men to
Joppa, and call for Simon whose
surname is Peter,
who will tell you words by
which you and all your household
will be saved.’
And as I began to speak, the
Holy Spirit fell upon them, as
upon us at the beginning.
Then I remembered the word
of the Lord, how He said, ‘John
indeed baptized with water, but
you will be baptized with the Holy
Spirit.’
If therefore God gave them the
same gift as He did to us when
we believed on the Lord Jesus
Christ, who was I that I could
withstand God?”
When they heard these things
they held their peace; and they
glorifi ed God, saying, “Then God
has also granted to the Gentiles
repentance to life.”
Now those who were scattered
after the persecution that arose
over Stephen traveled as far as
Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch,
preaching the word to no one but
the Jews only.
But some of them were men
from Cyprus and Cyrene, who,
when they had come to Antioch,
spoke to the Hellenists, preaching
the Lord Jesus.
And the hand of the Lord was
with them, and a great number
believed and turned to the Lord.
Then news of these things
came to the ears of the church
that was in Jerusalem, and they
sent out Barnabas to go as far as
Antioch.
Who when he came and had
seen the grace of God, was glad,
and encouraged them all that
with purpose of heart they should
continue with the Lord.
Because, he was a good man,
full of the Holy Spirit and of faith.
And many people were added to
the Lord.
Then Barnabas departed for
Tarsus to seek for Saul.
And when he had found him,
he brought him to Antioch. So it
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was that for an entire year they
assembled with the church and
taught many people. And the disciples
were fi rst called Christians
in Antioch.
And in these days prophets
came from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Then one of them, named
Agabus, stood up and signifi ed by
the Spirit that there was going to
be a great famine throughout all
the world, which occurred in the
days of Claudius Caesar.
Then the disciples, each according
to his ability, determined to
send relief to the brethren dwelling
in Judea.
This they also did, and sent
it to the elders by the hands of
Barnabas and Saul.
CHAPTER
Now about that time Herod the
king stretched out his hand to
harass some from the church.
Then he killed James the brother
of John with the sword.
And because he saw that it pleased
the Jews, he proceeded further to
seize Peter also. These were the
Days of Unleavened Bread.
So when he had arrested him, he
put him in prison, and delivered
him to four squads of soldiers to
keep him, intending after Easter
to bring him before the people.
Therefore Peter was kept in prison,
but constant prayer was off ered to
God for him by the church.
And when Herod was about to
bring him out, that same night
Peter was sleeping, bound with
two chains between two soldiers;
and the guards before the door
were guarding the prison.
Now behold, the angel of the
Lord stood over him, and a light
shone in the prison; and he struck
Peter on the side and raised him
up, saying, “Rise up quickly!” And
his chains fell off from his hands.
Then the angel said to him,
“Gird yourself and tie on your
sandals”; and so he did. And he
said to him, “Put on your clothes
and follow me.”
So he went out and followed
him, and did not know that what
was done by the angel was real,
but thought he saw a vision.
When they were past the fi rst
and the second guard posts, they
came to the iron gate that leads
to the city, which opened to them
of its own accord; and they went
out and went down through one
street, and immediately the angel
departed from him.
And when Peter had come to
himself, he said, “Now I know for
certain that the Lord has sent His
angel, and has delivered me from
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the hand of Herod and from all the
expectation of the Jewish people.”
So, when he had considered the
matter, he came to the house of
Mary, the mother of John whose
surname was Mark, where many
were gathered together praying.
And as Peter knocked at the
door of the gate, a girl named
Rhoda came to answer.
When she recognized Peter’s
voice, because of gladness she
did not open the gate, but ran in
and announced that Peter stood
before the gate.
But they said to her, “You
are mad!” Yet she kept insisting
that it was so. So they said, “It is
his angel.”
Now Peter continued knocking;
and when they opened the
door and saw him, they were
astonished.
But motioning to them with his
hand to keep silent, he declared to
them how the Lord had brought
him out of the prison. And he said,
“Go, tell these things to James and
to the brethren.” And he departed
and went to another place.
Then, as soon as it was day,
there was no small stir among the
soldiers about what had become
of Peter.
But when Herod had searched
for him and did not fi nd him, he
examined the guards and commanded
that they should be put
to death. And he went down from
Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
Now Herod had been very displeased
with the people of Tyre
and Sidon; but they came to him
with one accord, and having
made Blastus the king’s personal
aide their friend, they desired
peace, because their country was
supplied with food by the king’s
country.
So on a set day Herod, arrayed
in royal apparel, sat upon his
throne and gave a speech to them.
And the people shouted out,
saying, “It is the voice of a god and
not of a man!”
Then immediately an angel of the
Lord struck him, because he did not
give glory to God. So he became eaten
by worms and gave up the spirit.
But the word of God grew and
multiplied.
And Barnabas and Saul returned
from Jerusalem when they had
fulfi lled their ministry, and they
also took with them John whose
surname was Mark.
CHAPTER
Now in the church that was
at Antioch there were certain
prophets and teachers: Barnabas,
Simeon who was called Niger,
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Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who
had been brought up with Herod
the tetrarch, and Saul.
As they ministered to the Lord
and fasted, the Holy Spirit said,
“Now separate to Me Barnabas
and Saul for the work to which I
have called them.”
Then, when they had fasted and
prayed, and laid their hands on
them, they sent them away.
So, being sent out by the
Holy Spirit, they departed to
Seleucia, and from there they
sailed to Cyprus.
And when they arrived in Salamis,
they preached the word of God in
the synagogues of the Jews. They
also had John as their assistant.
Now when they had gone
through the island to Paphos,
they found a certain sorcerer, a
false prophet, a Jew whose name
was Barjesus,
who was with the proconsul
of the country, Sergius Paulus, a
prudent man. This man called for
Barnabas and Saul and sought to
hear the word of God.
But Elymas the sorcerer (for so
his name is translated) opposed
them, seeking to turn the proconsul
away from the faith.
Then Saul (who also is called
Paul), fi lled with the Holy Spirit,
looked intently at him
and said, “O full of all deceit and
all fraud, you child of the devil,
you enemy of all righteousness,
will you not cease perverting the
right ways of the Lord?
And now, behold, the hand of
the Lord is upon you, and you will
be blind, not seeing the sun for a
season.” And immediately a mist
fell on him and darkness, and he
went around seeking someone to
lead him by the hand.
Then the proconsul believed,
when he saw what had been done,
being astonished at the doctrine
of the Lord.
Now when Paul and his company
set sail from Paphos, they
came to Perga in Pamphylia;
and John, departing from them,
returned to Jerusalem.
But when they departed from
Perga, they came to Antioch in
Pisidia, and went into the synagogue
on the Sabbath day and
sat down.
And after the reading of the
Law and the Prophets, the rulers
of the synagogue sent to them,
saying, “You men and brethren, if
you have any word of exhortation
for the people, say on.”
Then Paul stood up, and
motioning with his hand said,
“Men of Israel, and you who reverence
God, pay attention:
The God of this people Israel
chose our fathers, and lifted up
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the people when they dwelt as
foreigners in the land of Egypt,
and with an uplifted arm He
brought them out of it.
Now for a time of about forty
years He endured with their ways
in the wilderness.
And when He had destroyed
seven nations in the land of
Canaan, He distributed their land
to them by allotment.
“And after that He gave judges
to them for the period of four hundred
and fi fty years, until Samuel
the prophet.
And afterward they desired a
king; so God gave them Saul the
son of Kish, a man of the tribe
of Benjamin, for the period of
forty years.
And when He had removed him,
He raised up for them David to be
their king, to whom also He gave testimony
and said, ‘I have found David
the son of Jesse, a man after My own
heart, who will fulfi ll all My will.’
From this man’s seed, according
to His promise, has God raised
up for Israel a Savior, Jesus;
after John had fi rst preached,
before His coming, the baptism
of repentance to all the people
of Israel.
And as John fulfi lled his course,
he said, ‘Who do you think I am?
I am not He. But behold, there
comes One after me, the sandals of
His feet I am not worthy to loose.’
“Men and brethren, children of
the family of Abraham, and those
among you who reverence God, to
you the word of this salvation has
been sent.
Because, those who dwell in
Jerusalem, and their rulers, since
they did not know Him, nor even
the voices of the Prophets which
are read every Sabbath day, have
fulfi lled them in condemning Him.
And though they found no reason
for death in Him, they asked
Pilate that He should be killed.
Now when they had fulfi lled all
that was written concerning Him,
they took Him down from the tree
and laid Him in a tomb.
But God raised Him from
the dead.
He was seen for many days
by those who came up with Him
from Galilee to Jerusalem, who
are His witnesses to the people.
And we declare to you glad tidings;
how that promise which was
made to the fathers,
God has fulfi lled this for us their
children, in that He has raised up
Jesus again. As it is also written
in the second Psalm: ‘You are My
Son, today I have begotten You.’
And concerning how He raised
Him from the dead, now no more
to return to corruption, He has
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spoken in this way: ‘I will give you
the sure mercies of David.’
Therefore He also says in
another Psalm: ‘You will not allow
Your Holy One to see corruption.’
“Because David, after he had
served his own generation by
the will of God, fell asleep, was
buried with his fathers, and saw
corruption;
but He whom God raised up saw
no corruption.
Therefore let it be known to
you, men and brethren, that
through this Man is preached to
you the forgiveness of sins;
and by Him everyone who
believes is justifi ed from all things
from which you could not be justifi
ed by the law of Moses.
Beware therefore, lest what
has been spoken in the prophets
come upon you:
‘Behold, you despisers, marvel
and perish! Because, I work a work
in your days, a work which you
will by no means believe, though
one were to declare it to you.’”
So when the Jews had gone out
of the synagogue, the Gentiles
begged that these words might be
preached to them the next Sabbath.
Now when the congregation
had broken up, many of the Jews
and devout proselytes followed
Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking
to them, persuaded them to continue
in the grace of God.
And the next Sabbath day
almost the entire city came
together to hear the word of God.
But when the Jews saw the
crowds, they were fi lled with
envy; and contradicting and blaspheming,
they spoke against the
things spoken by Paul.
Then Paul and Barnabas grew
bold and said, “It was necessary
that the word of God should be
spoken to you fi rst; but since you
reject it, and judge yourselves
unworthy of everlasting life,
behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
Because, so has the Lord commanded
us, saying ‘I have set you
as a light to the Gentiles, that you
should exist for salvation to the
ends of the earth.’”
Now when the Gentiles heard
this, they were glad and glorifi
ed the word of the Lord. And as
many as believed were ordained
to eternal life.
And the word of the Lord was
being spread throughout the
entire region.
But the Jews stirred up the
devout and prominent women
and the chief men of the city,
raised up persecution against
Paul and Barnabas, and expelled
them from their region.
But they shook off the dust
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from their feet against them, and
came to Iconium.
And the disciples were fi lled
with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
CHAPTER
Now it happened in Iconium
that they both went together to
the synagogue of the Jews, and
spoke in such a way that a large
crowd both of the Jews and of the
Greeks believed.
But the unbelieving Jews stirred
up the Gentiles and poisoned
their minds against the brethren.
Therefore they stayed there a long
time, speaking boldly in the Lord,
who gave testimony to the word
of His grace, and granted signs and
wonders to be done by their hands.
But the population of the city
was divided: part sided with the
Jews, and part with the apostles.
And when a violent attempt was
made by both the Gentiles and
Jews, with their rulers, to abuse
them, and to stone them,
they were aware of it and fl ed to
Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia,
and to the surrounding region.
And they preached the gospel
there.
And in Lystra a certain man without
strength in his feet was sitting,
being a cripple from his mother’s
womb, who had never walked.
This man heard Paul speaking,
who observing him intently
and seeing that he had faith to
be healed,
said with a loud voice, “Stand
up straight on your feet!” And he
leaped and walked.
Now when the people saw what
Paul had done, they raised their
voices, saying in the Lycaonian
language, “The gods have come
down to us in the likeness of men!”
And Barnabas they called
Jupiter, and Paul, Mercurius,
because he was the chief speaker.
Then the priest of Jupiter, who
was in front of their city, brought
oxen and garlands to the gates,
intending to do sacrifi ce with
the people.
But when the apostles Barnabas
and Paul heard this, they tore
their clothes and ran in among
the people, shouting out
and saying, “Men, why are you
doing these things? We also are
men with a similar nature to you,
and preach to you that you should
turn from these useless things
to the living God, who made the
heaven, the earth, the sea, and all
things that are in them,
who in times past allowed all
nations to walk in their own ways.
Nevertheless He did not leave
Himself without witness, in that
He did good, gave us rain from
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heaven and fruitful seasons, fi lling
our hearts with food and
gladness.”
And with these sayings they
could barely restrain the people
from sacrifi cing to them.
Then certain Jews from Antioch
and Iconium came there; who
persuaded the people, and having
stoned Paul, dragged him out of
the city, supposing him to be dead.
However, when the disciples
gathered around him, he rose
up and went into the city. And
the next day he departed with
Barnabas to Derbe.
And when they had preached
the gospel to that city and taught
many, they returned to Lystra,
Iconium, and Antioch,
strengthening the souls of
the disciples, exhorting them to
continue in the faith, and that
through many tribulations we
must enter the kingdom of God.
So when they had appointed
elders in every church, and prayed
with fasting, they commended
them to the Lord in whom they
had believed.
And after they had passed
through Pisidia, they came to
Pamphylia.
Now when they had preached
the word in Perga, they went
down into Attalia.
From there they sailed to
Antioch, where they had been
commended to the grace of God
for the work which they had
completed.
Now when they had come and
gathered the church together,
they reported all that God had
done with them, and how He had
opened the door of faith to the
Gentiles.
So they stayed there a long time
with the disciples.
CHAPTER
And certain men who came
down from Judea taught the
brethren, and said “Unless you
are circumcised according to the
custom of Moses, you cannot be
saved.”
Therefore, when Paul and
Barnabas had no small dissension
and dispute with them,
they determined that Paul and
Barnabas and certain others of
them should go up to Jerusalem,
to the apostles and elders, about
this question.
So, being sent on their way by
the church, they passed through
Phoenicia and Samaria, describing
the conversion of the Gentiles;
and they caused great joy to all
the brethren.
And when they had come to
Jerusalem, they were received by
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the church and by the apostles
and the elders; and they declared
everything that God had done
with them.
But some of the sect of the
Pharisees who believed rose up,
saying, “It is necessary to circumcise
them, and to command them
to keep the law of Moses.”
Now the apostles and elders
came together to consider this
matter.
And when there had been a
great disputation, Peter rose up
and said to them: “Men and brethren,
you know that a good while
ago God chose among us, that by
my mouth the Gentiles should
hear the word of the gospel and
believe.
So God, who knows the heart,
bore witness to them by giving
them the Holy Spirit, just as He
did to us,
and made no distinction
between us and them, purifying
their hearts by faith.
Now therefore, why do you test
God by putting a yoke on the neck
of the disciples which neither our
fathers nor we were able to bear?
But we believe that through the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we
will be saved in the same manner
as they.”
Then all the multitude kept
silent and listened to Barnabas
and Paul declaring what miracles
and wonders God had worked
through them among the Gentiles.
And after they had become
silent, James replied, saying,
“Men and brethren, listen to me:
Simon has declared how God at
the fi rst visited the Gentiles to take
out of them a people for His name.
And with this the words of the
prophets agree, as it is written:
‘After this I will return and will
rebuild the tabernacle of David,
which has fallen down; I will
rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up;
So that the remainder of the
people may seek the Lord, and all
the Gentiles who are called by My
name, says the Lord who does all
these things.’
“Known to God are all His works
from the beginning of the world.
Therefore my judgment is that
we should not trouble those from
among the Gentiles who have
turned to God,
but that we write to them that
they abstain from things polluted
by idols, from sexual immorality,
from things strangled, and
from blood.
Because, Moses has those who
preach him in every city from
old times, being read in the synagogues
every Sabbath day.”
Then it pleased the apostles and
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elders, with the entire church, to
send chosen men of their own
company to Antioch with Paul
and Barnabas, namely, Judas surnamed
Barsabas, and Silas, leading
men among the brethren.
They wrote letters by them
according to this manner: The
apostles, the elders, and the
brethren, send greetings to the
brethren who are of the Gentiles
in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia.
Since we have heard that some
who went out from us have troubled
you with words, unsettling
your souls, saying, “You must be
circumcised and keep the law,”
to whom we gave no such commandment
,
it seemed good to us, being
assembled with one accord, to
send chosen men to you with our
beloved Barnabas and Paul,
men who have endangered
their lives for the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
We have therefore sent Judas
and Silas, who will also tell you
the same things by mouth.
Because, it seemed good to the
Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon
you no greater burden than these
necessary things:
that you abstain from food
off ered to idols, from blood,
from things strangled, and from
sexual immorality. If you keep
yourselves from these, you will do
well. Farewell.
So when they were dismissed,
they came to Antioch; and when
they had gathered the multitude
together, they delivered the letter.
Which when they had read, they
rejoiced over its encouragement.
Now Judas and Silas, themselves
being prophets also, exhorted the
brethren with many words and
confi rmed them.
And after they had stayed there
for a time, they were let go in
peace from the brethren to the
apostles.
However, it seemed good to
Silas to remain there.
Paul and Barnabas also
remained in Antioch, teaching
and preaching the word of the
Lord, with many others also.
Then after some days Paul said
to Barnabas, “Let us now go back
and visit our brethren in every
city where we have preached the
word of the Lord, and see how they
are doing.”
Now Barnabas was determined
to take with them John whose
surname was Mark.
But Paul did not think it good
to take him with them, who had
departed from them in Pamphylia,
and had not gone with them to
the work.
Then the contention became so
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sharp that they parted from one
another. And so Barnabas took
Mark and sailed to Cyprus;
but Paul chose Silas and
departed, being commended by
the brethren to the grace of God.
And he went through Syria
and Cilicia, strengthening the
churches.
CHAPTER
Then he came to Derbe and
Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple
was there, named Timothy, the
son of a certain Jewish woman who
believed, but his father was a Greek.
He was well reported of by the
brethren who were at Lystra and
Iconium.
Paul wanted to have him go on
with him. And he took him and circumcised
him because of the Jews
who were in that region, because
they all knew that his father was
a Greek.
And as they went through the
cities, they delivered to them
the decrees to keep, which were
determined by the apostles and
elders who were at Jerusalem.
And so the churches were established
in the faith, and increased
in number daily.
Now when they had gone
throughout Phrygia and the
region of Galatia, they were
forbidden by the Holy Spirit to
preach the word in Asia.
After they had come to Mysia,
they tried to go into Bithynia, but
the Spirit did not permit them.
So passing by Mysia, they came
down to Troas.
And a vision appeared to Paul
in the night. A man of Macedonia
stood and pleaded with him, saying,
“Come over to Macedonia
and help us.”
Now after he had seen the
vision, immediately we sought to
go to Macedonia, concluding that
the Lord had called us to preach
the gospel to them.
Therefore, untying from
Troas, we ran a straight course to
Samothrace, and the next day to
Neapolis,
and from there to Philippi,
which is the foremost city of that
part of Macedonia and a colony.
And we were staying in that city
for some days.
And on the Sabbath we went
out of the city to the riverside,
where prayer was customarily
made; and we sat down and spoke
to the women who met there.
Now a certain woman named
Lydia heard us. She was a seller of
purple from the city of Thyatira,
who worshiped God. The Lord
opened her heart to heed the
things that were spoken by Paul.
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And when she and her household
were baptized, she begged us, saying,
“If you have judged me to be faithful
to the Lord, come to my house and
stay there.” So she persuaded us.
Now it happened, as we went
to prayer, that a certain girl possessed
with a spirit of divination
met us, who brought her masters
much profi t by fortune telling.
This girl followed Paul and us,
and shouted, saying, “These men
are the servants of the Most High
God, who proclaim to us the way
of salvation.”
And this she did for many days.
But Paul, being grieved, turned
and said to the spirit, “I command
you in the name of Jesus Christ
to come out of her.” And he came
out that very hour.
But when her masters saw that
their hope of profi t was gone, they
seized Paul and Silas and dragged
them into the marketplace to the
authorities.
And they brought them to the
magistrates, and said, “These
men, being Jews, greatly trouble
our city;
and they teach customs which
are not lawful for us to receive or
to observe being Romans.”
Then the crowd rose up together
against them; and the magistrates
tore off their clothes and commanded
them to beat them.
And when they had laid many
stripes on them, they threw them
into prison, commanding the
jailer to keep them securely.
Having received such an order, he
put them into the inner prison and
fastened their feet in the stocks.
But at midnight Paul and Silas
were praying and singing praises
to God, and the prisoners listened
to them.
Then suddenly there was a
great earthquake, so that the
foundations of the prison were
shaken; and immediately all the
doors were opened and everyone’s
chains were loosed.
And the keeper of the prison,
awaking from sleep and seeing
the prison doors open, supposing
the prisoners had fl ed, drew
his sword and would have killed
himself.
But Paul shouted with a loud
voice, saying, “Do yourself no
harm, because we are all here.”
Then he called for a light, ran
in, and fell down trembling before
Paul and Silas.
And he brought them out
and said, “Men, what must I do
to be saved?”
So they said, “Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be
saved, likewise your household.”
Then they spoke the word of
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the Lord to him and to all who
were in his house.
And he took them the same
hour of the night and washed
their stripes. And immediately he
and all his family were baptized.
Now when he had brought
them into his house, he set food
before them; and he rejoiced,
having believed in God with his
entire household.
And when it was day, the magistrates
sent the offi cers, saying,
“Let those men go.”
So the keeper of the prison
reported these words to Paul, saying,
“The magistrates have sent to
let you go. Now therefore depart,
and go in peace.”
But Paul said to them, “They
have beaten us openly, being
uncondemned Romans, and have
thrown us into prison. And now
do they put us out secretly? No
indeed! But let them come themselves
and get us out.”
And the offi cers told these
words to the magistrates, and
they were afraid when they heard
that they were Romans.
Then they came and pleaded
with them and brought them out,
and asked them to depart from
the city.
So they went out of the prison
and entered the house of Lydia;
and when they had seen the
brethren, they encouraged them
and departed.
CHAPTER
Now when they had passed
through Amphipolis and
Apollonia, they came to
Thessalonica, where there was a
synagogue of the Jews.
Then Paul, as his custom was,
went in to them, and for three
Sabbath days reasoned with them
from the Scriptures,
explaining and demonstrating
that Christ had to suff er and rise
again from the dead, and saying,
“This Jesus whom I preach to you
is Christ.”
And some of them believed; and
a large multitude of the devout
Greeks, and not a few of the leading
women, joined Paul and Silas.
But the Jews who did not
believe, becoming envious, took
some of the wicked men of a vulgar
sort, and gathering a mob,
set the entire city in an uproar
and attacked the house of Jason,
and sought to bring them out to
the people.
But when they did not fi nd
them, they dragged Jason and
some brethren to the rulers of the
city, shouting, “These who have
turned the world upside down
have come here also,
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Jason has harbored them, and
these are all acting contrary to
the decrees of Caesar, saying
there is another king, one Jesus.”
And they troubled the people
and the rulers of the city when
they heard these things.
So when they had taken enough
security from Jason and from the
rest, they let them go.
Then the brethren immediately
sent Paul and Silas away
by night to Berea. When they
arrived, they went into the synagogue
of the Jews.
These were more noble than
those in Thessalonica, in that
they received the word with all
readiness of mind, and searched
the Scriptures daily whether
these things were so.
Therefore many of them
believed, and also not a few of
the Greeks, prominent women as
well as men.
But when the Jews from
Thessalonica learned that the
word of God was preached by Paul
at Berea, they came there also and
stirred up the people.
And then immediately the
brethren sent Paul away, to go as
it were to the sea; but both Silas
and Timothy remained there.
So those who escorted Paul
brought him to Athens; and
receiving a command for Silas
and Timothy to come to him as
soon as possible, they departed.
Now while Paul waited for them
at Athens, his spirit was stirred
within him when he saw that the
city was entirely given over to
idolatry.
Therefore he disputed in the
synagogue with the Jews and
with the devout people, and in
the marketplace daily with those
who met with him.
Then some of the Epicurean and
of the Stoic philosophers encountered
him. And some said, “What
does this babbler say?” Others said,
“He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign
gods,” because he preached to
them Jesus and the resurrection.
And they took him and brought
him to the Areopagus, saying,
“May we know what this new doctrine
is of which you speak?
Because, you are bringing
some strange things to our ears.
Therefore we want to know what
these things mean.”
Because, all the Athenians and
the foreigners who were there
spent their time in nothing else
except to tell or to hear something
new.
Then Paul stood in the midst of
the Mars’ Hill and said, “You men
of Athens, I perceive that in all
things you are too superstitious;
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because, as I was passing by and
considering the objects of your
worship, I found an altar with this
inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN
GOD. Therefore, the One whom
you ignorantly worship, Him I
proclaim to you:
“God, who made the world and
everything in it, since He is Lord of
heaven and earth, does not dwell
in temples made with hands.
Nor is He worshiped with men’s
hands, as though He needed anything,
since He gives to all life,
breath, and all things.
And He has made from one
blood every nation of men to
dwell on all the face of the earth,
and has determined their preappointed
times and the boundaries
of their dwellings,
so that they should seek the
Lord, in the hope that they
might seek for Him and fi nd Him,
though He is not far from each
one of us;
because in Him we live and
move and have our being, as also
some of your own poets have said,
‘because we are also His off spring.’
Therefore, since we are the
off spring of God, we ought not
to think that the Godhead is like
gold or silver or stone, something
shaped by art and man’s devising.
And, these times of such ignorance
God overlooked, but now
commands all men everywhere
to repent,
because He has appointed a day
on which He will judge the world
in righteousness by that Man
whom He has ordained. He has
given assurance of this to all people
by raising Him from the dead.”
And when they heard of the
resurrection of the dead, some
mocked, while others said, “We
will hear you again on this matter.”
So Paul departed from
among them.
However, some men joined
him and believed, among them
was Dionysius the Areopagite, a
woman named Damaris, and others
with them.
CHAPTER
After these things Paul departed
from Athens and came to Corinth.
And he found a certain Jew named
Aquila, born in Pontus, who had
recently come from Italy with his
wife Priscilla (because Claudius had
commanded all the Jews to depart
from Rome); and he came to them.
So, because he was of the same
trade, he stayed with them and
worked; because by occupation
they were tentmakers.
And he reasoned in the synagogue
every Sabbath, and
persuaded both Jews and Greeks.
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And when Silas and Timothy
had come from Macedonia, Paul
was compelled by the Spirit, and
testifi ed to the Jews that Jesus is
the Christ.
But when they opposed themselves
and blasphemed, he shook
his clothes and said to them,
“Your blood be upon your own
heads; I am clean. From now on I
will go to the Gentiles.”
And he departed from there
and entered the house of a certain
man named Justus, one who
worshiped God, whose house was
next door to the synagogue.
Then Crispus, the ruler of the
synagogue, believed on the Lord
with his entire household. And
many of the Corinthians, hearing,
believed and were baptized.
Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the
night by a vision, “Do not be afraid,
but speak, and do not keep silent;
because I am with you, and no
one will attack you to hurt you;
because I have many people in
this city.”
And he continued there a year
and six months, teaching the
word of God among them.
When Gallio was proconsul of
Achaia, the Jews with one accord
rose up against Paul and brought
him to the judgment seat,
saying, “This man persuades
men to worship God contrary to
the law.”
And when Paul was about to
open his mouth, Gallio said to
the Jews, “If it were a matter of
wrongdoing or wicked crimes, O
Jews, there would be reason why
I should bear with you.
But if it is a question of words
and names and your own law,
look to it yourselves; because I
do not want to be a judge of such
matters.”
And he drove them from the
judgment seat.
Then all the Greeks took
Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue,
and beat him before the
judgment seat. But Gallio took no
notice of these things.
So after this Paul still remained
there a good while. Then he took
leave of the brethren and sailed
there into Syria, and Priscilla
and Aquila were with him; having
shaved his head at Cenchrea,
because he had taken a vow.
And he came to Ephesus, and
left them there; but he himself
entered the synagogue and reasoned
with the Jews.
When they asked him to stay a
longer time with them, he did not
consent,
but bid them goodbye, saying,
“I must by all means keep this
coming feast in Jerusalem; but I
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will return again to you, God willing.”
And he sailed from Ephesus.
And when he had landed
at Caesarea, and gone up and
greeted the church, he went down
to Antioch.
After he had spent some time
there, he departed and went over
the entire region of Galatia and
Phrygia in order, strengthening
all the disciples.
Now a certain Jew named
Apollos, born at Alexandria, an
eloquent man and mighty in the
Scriptures, came to Ephesus.
This man had been instructed
in the way of the Lord; and being
fervent in spirit, he spoke and
taught diligently the things of the
Lord, though he knew only the
baptism of John.
So he began to speak boldly in
the synagogue. When Aquila and
Priscilla heard him, they took him
aside and explained to him the
way of God more exactly.
And when he desired to cross
to Achaia, the brethren wrote,
exhorting the disciples to receive
him; and when he arrived, he
greatly helped those who had
believed through grace;
because he eff ectively refuted
the Jews, doing so publicly, showing
from the Scriptures that Jesus
is the Christ.
CHAPTER
And it happened, while Apollos
was at Corinth, that Paul, having
passed through the upper
regions, came to Ephesus. And
fi nding certain disciples
he said to them, “Have you
received the Holy Spirit since you
believed?” But they said to him,
“We have not so much as heard
whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
And he said to them, “Into what
then were you baptized?” And
they said, “Into John’s baptism.”
Then Paul said, “John indeed
baptized with a baptism of repentance,
saying to the people that
they should believe on Him who
would come after him, that is, on
Christ Jesus.”
When they heard this, they
were baptized in the name of the
Lord Jesus.
And when Paul had laid his
hands on them, the Holy Spirit
came upon them, and they spoke
with tongues and prophesied.
Now the men were about
twelve in all.
And he went into the synagogue
and spoke boldly for the space of
three months, disputing and persuading
the things concerning
the kingdom of God.
But when some were hardened
and did not believe, but spoke evil
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of the Way before the crowd, he
departed from them and withdrew
the disciples, reasoning daily
in the school of one Tyrannus.
And this continued for the
space of two years, so that all
those who dwelt in Asia heard the
word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews
and Greeks.
Now God worked unusual miracles
by the hands of Paul,
so that handkerchiefs or aprons
were brought from his body to
the sick, and the diseases left
them and the evil spirits went out
of them.
Then some of the itinerant
Jewish exorcists took it upon
themselves to call the name of the
Lord Jesus over those who had evil
spirits, saying, “We exorcise you
by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
And there were seven sons of
one Sceva, a Jew and chief priest,
who did so.
And the evil spirit replied and
said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I
know; but who are you?”
Then the man in whom the
evil spirit was leaped on them,
overpowered them, and prevailed
against them, so that they
fl ed out of that house naked and
wounded.
This became known both to
all Jews and Greeks dwelling in
Ephesus; and fear fell on them all,
and the name of the Lord Jesus
was magnifi ed.
And many who had believed
came confessing and telling
their deeds.
Also, many of those who had
practiced magic brought their
books together and burned them
in the sight of everyone. And
they counted up the value of
them, and it totaled fi fty thousand
pieces of silver.
So the word of God grew mightily
and prevailed.
When these things were accomplished,
Paul purposed in the
Spirit, when he had passed through
Macedonia and Achaia, to go to
Jerusalem, saying, “After I have
been there, I must also see Rome.”
So he sent into Macedonia two
of those who ministered to him,
Timothy and Erastus, but he himself
stayed in Asia for a season.
And about that time there
arose no small commotion about
the Way.
Because, a certain man named
Demetrius, a silversmith, who
made silver shrines of Diana,
brought no small profi t to the
craftsmen,
whom he called together with
the workers of similar occupation,
and said: “Men, you know that we
have our wealth by this trade.
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Moreover you see and hear that
not only at Ephesus, but throughout
almost all Asia, this Paul has
persuaded and turned away many
people, saying that they are not
gods which are made with hands.
So that not only is this trade
of ours in danger of becoming
disgraced, but also the temple of
the great goddess Diana may be
despised and her magnifi cence
shall be destroyed, whom all Asia
and the world worship.”
Now when they heard these
words, they were full of wrath
and shouted out, saying, “Great is
Diana of the Ephesians!”
So the entire city was fi lled
with confusion, and having
seized Gaius and Aristarchus,
Macedonians, Paul’s travel companions,
they rushed into the
theater with one accord.
And when Paul wanted to go in
to the people, the disciples would
not allow him.
Then some of the offi cials of
Asia, who were his friends, sent
to him begging him that he himself
would not venture into the
theater.
Some therefore shouted one
thing and some another, because
the assembly was confused, and
most of them did not know why
they had come together.
And they drew Alexander out of
the crowd, the Jews putting him
forward. And Alexander motioned
with his hand, and wanted to
make his defense to the people.
But when they found out that
he was a Jew, all with one voice
shouted out for about the space of
two hours, “Great is Diana of the
Ephesians!”
And when the city clerk had
quieted the crowd, he said: “You
men of Ephesus, what man is
there who does not know that the
city of the Ephesians is a worshipper
of the great goddess Diana,
and of the image which fell down
from Jupiter?
Therefore, since these things
cannot be denied, you ought to be
quiet and do nothing rashly.
Because, you have brought
these men here who are neither
robbers of temples nor blasphemers
of your goddess.
Therefore, if Demetrius and his
fellow craftsmen who are with
him, have a case against anyone,
the courts are open and there
are proconsuls. Let them bring
charges against one another.
But if you have inquire anything
concerning other matters,
it should be determined in the
lawful assembly.
Because, we are in danger
of being called in question for
today’s uproar, there being no
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reason which we may give to
account for this commotion.”
And when he had said these
things, he dismissed the assembly.
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After the uproar had ceased,
Paul called the disciples to himself,
embraced them, and departed
to go to Macedonia.
Now when he had gone over that
region and encouraged them with
many words, he came into Greece
and stayed there three months.
And when the Jews plotted
against him as he was about to
sail to Syria, he decided to return
through Macedonia.
And Sopater of Berea accompanied
him to Asia, also Aristarchus and
Secundus of the Thessalonians, and
Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and of
Asia Tychicus and Trophimus.
These, going ahead, waited for
us at Troas.
But we sailed away from Philippi
after the Days of Unleavened
Bread, and in fi ve days joined
them at Troas, where we stayed
seven days.
Now on the fi rst day of the week,
when the disciples came together
to break bread, Paul, ready to
depart the next day, preached to
them and continued his message
until midnight.
There were many lamps in the
upper room where they were
gathered together.
And in a window sat a certain
young man named Eutychus, who
was falling into a deep sleep. He
was overcome by sleep; and as
Paul continued preaching, he fell
down from the third story and
was taken up dead.
But Paul went down, fell on
him, and embracing him said, “Do
not trouble yourselves, because
his life is in him.”
Now when he had come up
again, had broken bread and
eaten, and talked a long while,
even until daybreak, he departed.
And they brought the young
man in alive, and they were not a
little comforted.
Then we went ahead to the ship
and sailed to Assos, there intending
to take Paul on board; because
he had given orders, intending
himself to go on foot.
And when he met us at Assos,
we took him on board and came
to Mitylene.
We sailed from there, and the
next day came opposite Chios.
The following day we arrived at
Samos and stayed at Trogyllium.
The next day we came to Miletus.
Because, Paul had determined
to sail past Ephesus, so that he
would not have to spend time in
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Asia; because he was hurrying to
be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the
Day of Pentecost.
From Miletus he sent to
Ephesus and called for the elders
of the church.
And when they had come to
him, he said to them: “You know,
from the fi rst day that I came to
Asia, in what manner I always
lived among you, in every season
serving the Lord with all humility
of mind, with many tears and
trials which happened to me by
the plotting of the Jews;
and how I kept back nothing
that was helpful to you, but have
shown you, and taught you publicly
and from house to house,
testifying both to Jews, and also to
Greeks, repentance toward God and
faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
And behold, now I go bound in
the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing
the things that shall happen
to me there,
except that the Holy Spirit witnesses
in every city, saying that
chains and affl ictions await me.
But none of these things move
me; nor do I count my life dear to
myself, so that I may fi nish my race
with joy, and the ministry which I
received from the Lord Jesus, to testify
the gospel of the grace of God.
“And indeed, now I know that
you all, among whom I have gone
preaching the kingdom of God,
will see my face no longer.
Therefore I want you to record
this day that I am innocent of the
blood of all people.
Because I have not shunned
to declare to you the entire
counsel of God.
Therefore take heed to yourselves
and to all the fl ock, among
whom the Holy Spirit has made
you overseers, to feed the church
of God which He purchased with
His own blood.
Because I know this, that after
my departure savage wolves will
come in among you, not sparing
the fl ock.
Also from among yourselves
men will rise up, speaking perverse
things, to draw away
disciples after themselves.
Therefore watch, and remember
that for the space of three years
I did not cease to warn everyone
night and day with tears.
“So now, brethren, I commend
you to God and to the word of
His grace, which is able to build
you up and give you an inheritance
among all those who are
sanctifi ed.
I have coveted no one’s silver or
gold or apparel.
Yes, you yourselves know that
these hands have provided for
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my necessities, and for those who
were with me.
I have shown you in everything,
by laboring like this, that
you must support the weak. And
remember the words of the Lord
Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more
blessed to give than to receive.’”
And when he had said these
things, he knelt down and prayed
with them all.
Then they all wept freely, and
fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
sorrowing most of all for the
words which he spoke, that they
would see his face no longer. And
they accompanied him to the ship.
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Now it came to pass, that when
we had departed from them and set
sail, running a straight course we
came to Cos, the following day to
Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
And fi nding a ship sailing over
to Phoenicia, we went aboard and
set sail.
When we had sighted Cyprus, we
passed it on the left, sailed to Syria,
and landed at Tyre; because there
the ship was to unload her cargo.
And fi nding disciples, we stayed
there seven days. They told Paul
through the Spirit that he should
not go up to Jerusalem.
And when we had come to the
end of those days, we departed
and went on our way; and they all
accompanied us, with wives and
children, until we were out of the
city. And we knelt down on the
shore and prayed.
When we had taken our leave of
one another, we boarded the ship,
and they returned home again.
And when we had fi nished our
voyage from Tyre, we came to
Ptolemais, greeted the brethren,
and stayed with them one day.
On the next day we who were
Paul’s companions departed and
came to Caesarea, and entered
the house of Philip the evangelist,
who was one of the seven, and
stayed with him.
Now this man had four virgin
daughters who prophesied.
And as we stayed there several
days, a certain prophet named
Agabus came down from Judea.
When he had come to us, he
took Paul’s belt, bound his own
hands and feet, and said, “Thus
says the Holy Spirit, ‘So will the
Jews at Jerusalem bind the man
who owns this belt, and will
deliver him into the hands of the
Gentiles.’”
Now when we heard these
things, both we and those from
that place pleaded with him not
to go up to Jerusalem.
Then Paul replied, “What do
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you mean by weeping and breaking
my heart? Because I am ready
not only to be bound, but also to
die at Jerusalem for the name of
the Lord Jesus.”
So when he would not be persuaded,
we ceased, saying, “The
will of the Lord be done.”
And after those days we took
up our belongings and went up to
Jerusalem.
Also some of the disciples
from Caesarea went with us and
brought with them one Mnason
of Cyprus, an early disciple, with
whom we were to lodge.
And when we had come to
Jerusalem, the brethren received
us gladly.
On the following day Paul went
in with us to James, and all the
elders were present.
When he had greeted them, he
told in detail those things which
God had done among the Gentiles
through his ministry.
And when they heard it, they
glorifi ed the Lord. And they said
to him, “You see, brother, how
many thousands of Jews there are
who believe, and they are all zealous
for the law;
but they have been informed
about you that you teach all the
Jews who are among the Gentiles
to forsake Moses, saying that
they ought not to circumcise their
children nor to walk according to
the customs.
What is it then? The assembly
must certainly meet, because they
will hear that you have come.
Therefore do what we tell you:
We have four men who have taken
a vow upon themselves.
Take them and purify yourself
with them, and pay their expenses
so that they may shave their
heads, and that all may know that
those things of which they were
informed concerning you are
nothing, but that you yourself also
walk orderly and keep the law.
But concerning the Gentiles
who believe, we have written
and concluded that they should
observe no such thing, except
that they should keep themselves
from things off ered to idols, from
blood, from things strangled, and
from sexual immorality.”
Then Paul took the men, and
the next day, purifying himself
with them, entered into the temple
to signify the conclusion of
the days of purifi cation, at which
time an off ering should be made
for each one of them.
Now when the seven days were
almost ended, the Jews from Asia,
when they saw him in the temple,
stirred up all the people and laid
hands on him,
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shouting out, “Men of Israel,
help! This is the man who teaches
all men everywhere against the
people, the law, and this place;
and furthermore he also brought
Greeks into the temple and has
defi led this holy place.”
(Because, they had previously
seen Trophimus the Ephesian
with him in the city, whom they
supposed that Paul had brought
into the temple.)
And all the city was disturbed;
and the people ran together,
seized Paul, and dragged him out
of the temple; and immediately
the doors were shut.
Now as they were seeking to
kill him, news came to the commander
of the garrison that all
Jerusalem was in an uproar.
He immediately took soldiers
and centurions, and ran down
to them. And when they saw the
commander and the soldiers,
they stopped beating Paul.
Then the commander came
near and took him, and commanded
him to be bound with two
chains; and he asked who he was
and what he had done.
And some among the crowd
shouted one thing and some
another. So when he could not
be certain of the truth because
of the tumult, he commanded
him to be carried into the
barracks.
When he reached the stairs, it
happened that he had to be carried
by the soldiers because of the
violence of the mob.
Because the crowd of the people
followed after, shouting out,
“Away with him!”
Then as Paul was about to be led
into the barracks, he said to the
commander, “May I speak to you?”
He replied, “Can you speak Greek?
Are you not the Egyptian
who some time ago stirred up
a rebellion and led the four
thousand assassins out into the
wilderness?”
But Paul said, “I am a man who
is a Jew from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a
citizen of no obscure city; and I
implore you, permit me to speak
to the people.”
So when he had given him permission,
Paul stood on the stairs
and motioned with his hand to
the people. And when there was a
great silence, he spoke to them in
the Hebrew language, saying,
CHAPTER
“Men, brethren, and fathers,
hear my defense which I make
before you now.”
And when they heard that he
spoke to them in the Hebrew
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language, they kept all the more
silent. Then he said:
“I am indeed a man who is a Jew,
born in Tarsus a city in Cilicia, but
brought up in this city at the feet
of Gamaliel, taught according to
the perfect method of our fathers’
law, and was zealous toward God
as you all are today.
And I persecuted this Way to the
death, binding and delivering into
prisons both men and women,
as also the high priest bears me
witness, and all the council of the
elders, from whom I also received
letters to the brethren, and went
to Damascus to bring those who
were there in chains to Jerusalem
to be punished.
“Now it happened, as I journeyed
and came near Damascus at about
noon, suddenly a great light from
heaven shone around me.
And I fell to the ground and heard
a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul,
why are you persecuting Me?’
So I replied, ‘Who are You,
Lord?’ And He said to me, ‘I am
Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are
persecuting.’
“And those who were with me
indeed saw the light and were
afraid, but they did not hear the
voice of Him who spoke to me.
So I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’
And the Lord said to me, ‘Arise
and go into Damascus, and there
you will be told all things which
are appointed for you to do.’
And since I could not see
because of the glory of that light,
being led by the hand of those
who were with me, I came into
Damascus.
“Then a certain Ananias, a
devout man according to the law,
having a good testimony with all
the Jews who dwelt there,
came to me; and he stood and
said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive
your sight.’ And at that same hour
I looked up at him.
Then he said, ‘The God of our
fathers has chosen you that you
should know His will, and see the
Just One, and hear the voice of
His mouth.
Because, you will be His witness
to all people of what you have
seen and heard.
And now why are you waiting?
Arise and be baptized, and wash
away your sins, calling on the
name of the Lord.’
“Now it happened, when I
returned to Jerusalem and was
praying in the temple, that I was
in a trance
and saw Him saying to me,
‘Make haste and get out of
Jerusalem quickly, because they
will not receive your testimony
concerning Me.’
So I said, ‘Lord, they know that
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in every synagogue I imprisoned
and beat those who believe on You.
And when the blood of Your
martyr Stephen was shed, I also
was standing by consenting to his
death, and guarding the clothes of
those who were killing him.’
Then He said to me, ‘Depart,
because I will send you far from
here to the Gentiles.’”
And they listened to him until
this word, and then they raised
their voices and said, “Away
with such a man from the earth,
because he is not fi t to live!”
Then, as they shouted out and
tore off their clothes and threw
dust into the air,
the commander ordered him to
be brought into the barracks, and
said that he should be examined
under scourging, so that he might
know why they shouted like this
against him.
And as they bound him with
thongs, Paul said to the centurion
who stood by, “Is it lawful for you
to scourge a man who is a Roman,
and uncondemned?”
When the centurion heard that,
he went and told the commander,
saying, “Take care what you do,
because this man is a Roman.”
Then the commander came and
said to him, “Tell me, are you a
Roman?” He said, “Yes.”
The commander replied, “With a
large sum I obtained this freedom.”
And Paul said, “But I was born free.”
Then immediately those who
were about to examine him
withdrew from him; and the commander
was also afraid after he
found out that he was a Roman,
and because he had bound him.
The next day, because he
wanted to know for certain why
he was accused by the Jews, he
released him from his bonds, and
commanded the chief priests and
all their council to appear, and
brought Paul down and set him
before them.
CHAPTER
Then Paul, looking earnestly at the
council, said, “Men and brethren, I
have lived in all good conscience
before God until this day.”
And the high priest Ananias
commanded those who stood by
him to strike him on the mouth.
Then Paul said to him, “God
will strike you, you whitewashed
wall! Because, you sit to judge me
according to the law, and do you
command me to be struck contrary
to the law?”
And those who stood by said,
“Do you revile God’s high priest?”
Then Paul said, “I did not know,
brethren, that he was the high
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priest; because it is written, ‘You
shall not speak evil of a ruler of
your people.’”
But when Paul perceived that
one part were Sadducees and the
other Pharisees, he shouted out
in the council, “Men and brethren,
I am a Pharisee, the son of
a Pharisee; concerning the hope
and resurrection of the dead I am
being questioned!”
And when he had said this, a
dissension arose between the
Pharisees and the Sadducees; and
the assembly was divided.
Because, Sadducees say that
there is no resurrection, nor
angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees
confess both.
Then there arose a loud uproar.
And the scribes who were of the
Pharisees’ company arose and
protested, saying, “We fi nd no
evil in this man; but if a spirit or
an angel has spoken to him, let us
not fi ght against God.”
Now when there arose a great
dissension, the commander, fearing
lest Paul might be pulled to
pieces by them, commanded the
soldiers to go down and take him
by force from among them, and
bring him into the barracks.
But the following night the Lord
stood by him and said, “Be of good
cheer Paul; because, as you have
testifi ed of Me in Jerusalem, so you
must also bear witness at Rome.”
And when it was day, some of the
Jews banded together and bound
themselves under an oath, saying
that they would neither eat nor
drink until they had killed Paul.
Now there were more than forty
who had formed this conspiracy.
They came to the chief priests
and elders, and said, “We have
bound ourselves under a great
oath that we will eat nothing until
we have killed Paul.
Now you, therefore, together
with the council, suggest to the
commander that he be brought
down to you tomorrow, as though
you were going to make further
inquiries concerning him; but we
are ready to kill him before he
comes near.”
So when Paul’s sister’s son heard
of their ambush, he went and
entered the barracks and told Paul.
Then Paul called one of the
centurions to him and said,
“Take this young man to the
commander, because he has
something to tell him.”
So he took him and brought him
to the commander and said, “Paul
the prisoner called me to him and
asked me to bring this young man
to you. He has something to say
to you.”
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Then the commander took him
by the hand, went aside with him,
and asked him privately, “What is
it that you have to tell me?”
And he said, “The Jews have
agreed to ask that you bring Paul
down to the council tomorrow, as
though they were going to inquire
more fully about him.
But do not yield to them, because
more than forty of them lie in wait
for him, men who have bound
themselves by an oath that they will
neither eat nor drink until they have
killed him; and now they are ready,
waiting for the promise from you.”
So then the commander let
the young man depart, and commanded
him, “See that you tell no
one that you have revealed these
things to me.”
And he called two centurions to
himself, saying, “Prepare two hundred
soldiers, seventy horsemen,
and two hundred spearmen to go
to Caesarea at the third hour of
the night;
and provide for them animals
to set Paul upon, and bring him
safely to Felix the governor.”
Then he wrote a letter in the
following manner:
Claudius Lysias, to the most
excellent governor Felix: I send
Greetings.
This man was seized by the
Jews and would have been killed
by them. Then I came with the
troops and rescued him, having
learned that he was a Roman.
And when I wanted to know
the reason they accused him, I
brought him before their council.
I perceived that he was accused
concerning questions of their law,
but had nothing charged against
him deserving of death or chains.
And when it was told me that
the Jews lay in wait for the man, I
sent him immediately to you, and
also commanded his accusers to
state before you the charges they
had against him. Farewell.
Then the soldiers, as they
were commanded, took Paul and
brought him by night to Antipatris.
On the next day, they left the
horsemen to go on with him, and
returned to the barracks.
Who when they came to
Caesarea and had delivered the
letter to the governor, they also
presented Paul to him.
And when the governor had
read the letter, he asked what
province he was from. And when
he understood that he was from
Cilicia,
he said, “I will hear you when
your accusers also have come.”
And he commanded him to be
kept in Herod’s judgment hall.
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CHAPTER
Now after fi ve days Ananias the
high priest came down with the
elders and with a certain orator
named Tertullus, who gave evidence
to the governor against Paul.
And when he was called upon,
Tertullus began to accuse him,
saying: “Seeing that through you
we enjoy great peace, and very
admirable deeds are done to this
nation by your foresight,
we accept it always and in all
places, most noble Felix, with all
thankfulness.
Nevertheless, not to be tedious
to you any further, I beg you to
hear, by your courtesy, a few
words from us.
Because, we have found this man
a plague, a creator of dissension
among all the Jews throughout
the world, and a ringleader of the
cult of the Nazarenes.
He even tried to profane the
temple, and we seized him, and
wanted to judge him according to
our law.
But the commander Lysias went
above us and with great violence
took him out of our hands,
commanding his accusers to come
to you. By examining him yourself
you may ascertain all these things
of which we accuse him.”
And the Jews also assented,
maintaining that these things
were so.
Then Paul, after the governor
had motioned to him to speak,
replied: “Inasmuch as I know that
you have been for many years a
judge of this nation, I do the more
cheerfully answer for myself,
because, you may ascertain that
it is no more than twelve days since
I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
And they neither found me in
the temple disputing with anyone
nor inciting the people, either in
the synagogues or in the city.
Nor can they prove the things
of which they now accuse me.
But this I confess to you, that
according to the Way which they
call heresy, so I worship the God
of my fathers, believing all things
which are written in the Law and
in the Prophets.
I have hope in God, which they
themselves also accept, that there
will be a resurrection of the dead,
both of the just and the unjust.
And in this I always strive to
have a conscience without off ense
toward God and towards men.
“Now after many years I came
to bring charitable gifts and off erings
to my nation,
in the midst of which some
Jews from Asia found me purifi ed
in the temple, neither with a mob
nor with tumult.
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They ought to have been here
before you to object if they had
anything against me.
Or else let these people here
say if they found any wrongdoing
in me while I stood before the
council,
unless it is for this one statement
which I shouted, standing
among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection
of the dead I am being
judged by you this day.’”
But when Felix heard these
things, having more accurate
knowledge of that Way, he
deferred them and said, “When
Lysias the commander comes
down, I will make a decision on
your case.”
So he commanded the centurion
to guard Paul and to let him
have liberty, and that he should
not forbid any of his friends to
provide for or visit him.
And after some days, when
Felix came with his wife Drusilla,
who was Jewish, he sent for Paul
and heard him concerning the
faith in Christ.
Now as he reasoned about
righteousness, self control, and
judgment to come, Felix was
afraid and replied, “Go away for
now; when I have a convenient
time I will call for you.”
He also hoped that money
would be given him by Paul, that
he might release him. Therefore
he sent for him more often and
conversed with him.
But after two years Porcius
Festus succeeded Felix’ offi ce; and
Felix, wanting to do the Jews a
favor, left Paul bound.
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Now when Festus had come
into the province, after three
days he went up from Caesarea to
Jerusalem.
Then the high priest and the
chief men of the Jews informed
him against Paul; and they petitioned
him,
asking a favor against him,
that he would summon him
to Jerusalem, while they lay in
ambush along the road to kill him.
But Festus replied that Paul
should be kept at Caesarea, and
that he himself was going there
shortly.
“Therefore,” he said, “let those
who are able among you go down
with me and accuse this man, to
see if there is any fault in him.”
And when he had remained
among them more than ten days,
he went down to Caesarea. And
the next day, sitting on the judgment
seat, he commanded Paul to
be brought.
When he had come, the Jews who
had come down from Jerusalem
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stood about and laid many serious
complaints against Paul, which
they could not prove,
while he answered for himself,
“Neither against the law of
the Jews, nor against the temple,
nor even against Caesar have I
off ended in anything at all.”
But Festus, wanting to do the
Jews a favor, replied to Paul and
said, “Are you willing to go up to
Jerusalem and there be judged
before me concerning these
things?”
So Paul said, “I stand at Caesar’s
judgment seat, where I ought to
be judged. To the Jews I have done
no wrong, as you very well know.
Because if I am an off ender, or
have committed anything deserving
of death, I do not object to
dying; but if there is nothing in
these things of which these men
accuse me, no one can deliver me
to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
Then Festus, when he had conferred
with the council, replied,
“You have appealed to Caesar? To
Caesar you will go!”
And after some days King
Agrippa and Bernice came to
Caesarea to greet Festus.
And when they had been there
many days, Festus laid Paul’s case
before the king, saying: “There is a
certain man left a prisoner by Felix,
about whom the chief priests
and the elders of the Jews
informed me, when I was in
Jerusalem, asking to have judgment
against him.
To them I replied, ‘It is not the
custom of the Romans to deliver
any man to die before the accused
meets the accusers face to face,
and has opportunity to answer
for himself concerning the charge
against him.’
Therefore when they had come
here, without any delay, the next
day I sat on the judgment seat
and commanded the man to be
brought in.
When the accusers stood up,
they brought no accusation
against him of such things as I
supposed,
but had some questions against
him about their own superstition
and about a certain Jesus, who
had died, whom Paul affi rmed to
be alive.
And because I was uncertain
of such questions, I asked him
whether he was willing to go to
Jerusalem and there be judged
concerning these matters.
But when Paul appealed to
be reserved for the decision of
Augustus, I commanded him to
be kept until I could send him to
Caesar.”
Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I
also would like to hear the man
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myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said,
“you will hear him.”
So on the next day, when
Agrippa and Bernice had come
with great fanfare, and had
entered the auditorium with the
commanders and the prominent
men of the city, at Festus’ command
Paul was brought in.
And Festus said: “King Agrippa
and all the men who are here
present with us, you see this man
about whom the entire assembly
of the Jews petitioned me,
both at Jerusalem and also here,
shouting that he was not fi t to
live any longer.
But when I found that he had
committed nothing deserving of
death, and that he himself had
appealed to Augustus, I decided
to send him.
I have nothing certain to write
to my lord concerning him.
Therefore I have brought him out
before you, and especially before
you, King Agrippa, so that after
the examination has taken place I
may have something to write.
Because, it seems to me unreasonable
to send a prisoner and
not to specify the charges laid
against him.”
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Then Agrippa said to Paul,
“You are permitted to speak
for yourself.” So Paul stretched
out his hand and answered for
himself:
“I think myself happy, King
Agrippa, because today I will
answer for myself before you concerning
all the things of which I
am accused by the Jews,
especially because I know that
you are an expert in all customs
and questions which have to do
with the Jews. Therefore I beg you
to hear me patiently.
“My manner of life from my
youth, which was spent from the
beginning among my own nation
at Jerusalem, all the Jews know.
Who knew me from the beginning,
if they were willing to testify,
that according to the strictest sect
of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
And now I stand and am judged
for the hope of the promise made
by God to our fathers.
To this promise our twelve tribes,
earnestly serving God night and
day, hope to attain. For this hope’s
sake, King Agrippa, I am accused
by the Jews.
Why should it be thought an
improbable thing by you that God
raises the dead?
“Truly, I myself thought I must
do many things contrary to the
name of Jesus of Nazareth.
This I also did in Jerusalem, and
many of the saints I shut up in
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prison, having received authority
from the chief priests; and when
they were put to death, I cast my
voice against them.
And I punished them often in
every synagogue and compelled
them to blaspheme; and being
exceedingly enraged against
them, I persecuted them even to
foreign cities.
“Being preoccupied with this,
as I journeyed to Damascus with
authority and commission from
the chief priests,
at midday, O king, along the road
I saw a light from heaven, brighter
than the sun, shining around me
and those who journeyed with me.
And when we all had fallen
to the ground, I heard a voice
speaking to me and saying in the
Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why
are you persecuting Me? It is hard
for you to kick against the prods.’
So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’
And He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom
you are persecuting.
But rise and stand on your
feet; because I have appeared to
you for this reason, to make you
a minister and a witness both of
the things which you have seen
and of the things which I will yet
reveal to you.
Delivering you from the people,
and from the Gentiles, to whom I
now send you,
to open their eyes, to turn them
from darkness to light, and from
the power of Satan to God, that
they may receive forgiveness of
sins and an inheritance among
those who are sanctifi ed by faith
that is in Me.’
“Therefore, King Agrippa, I
was not disobedient to the heavenly
vision,
but declared fi rst to those in
Damascus and in Jerusalem, and
throughout all the region of Judea,
and then to the Gentiles, that they
should repent, turn to God, and
do works befi tting repentance.
For these reasons the Jews
seized me in the temple and tried
to kill me.
Therefore, having obtained
help from God, to this day I stand,
witnessing both to small and
great, saying no other things than
those which the prophets and
Moses said would come;
that Christ would suff er, that
He would be the fi rst to rise from
the dead, and would show light to
the people and to the Gentiles.”
Now as he spoke for himself like
this, Festus said with a loud voice,
“Paul, you are beside yourself!
Much learning is driving you mad!”
But he said, “I am not mad,
most noble Festus, but speak the
words of truth and reason.
Because the king, before whom
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I also speak freely, knows these
things; because, I am convinced
that none of these things are hidden
from him, since this thing
was not done in a corner.
King Agrippa, do you believe
the prophets? I know that you do
believe.”
Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You
almost persuade me to become a
Christian.”
And Paul said, “I would to God
that not only you, but also all who
hear me today, might become
both almost and altogether such
as I am, except for these chains.”
When he had said these things,
the king stood up, as well as the
governor and Bernice and those
who sat with them;
and when they had gone aside,
they talked among themselves,
saying, “This man is doing nothing
deserving of death or chains.”
Then Agrippa said to Festus,
“This man might have been set
free if he had not appealed to
Caesar.”
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And when it was determined
that we should sail to Italy, they
delivered Paul and some other
prisoners to one named Julius,
a centurion of the Augustan
Regiment.
So, entering into a ship of
Adramyttium, we launched,
meaning to sail along the coasts
of Asia. One Aristarchus, a
Macedonian of Thessalonica, was
with us.
And the next day we landed at
Sidon. And Julius treated Paul
kindly and gave him liberty to go
to his friends and refresh himself.
When we had launched from
there, we sailed under Cyprus,
because the winds were contrary.
And when we had sailed over
the sea which is off Cilicia and
Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a
city of Lycia.
And there the centurion found
an Alexandrian ship sailing to
Italy, and he put us on board.
And when we had sailed slowly
many days, and arrived with diffi
culty off Cnidus, the wind not
permitting us to proceed, we
sailed under Crete off Salmone.
And passing it with diffi culty,
we came to a place called The
Fair Havens; nearby was the city
of Lasea.
Now when much time had
been spent, and sailing was now
dangerous because the Fast was
already over, Paul advised them,
and said to them, “Men, I perceive
that this voyage will end
with disaster and much loss, not
only of the cargo and ship, but
also our lives.”
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Nevertheless the centurion
believed the helmsman and the
owner of the ship than those
things which were spoken by Paul.
And because the harbor was not
suitable to winter in, the majority
advised to set sail from there also,
if by any means they might reach
Phoenix, which is a harbor of Crete
opening toward the southwest
and northwest, and winter there.
And when the south wind blew
softly, supposing that they had
obtained their desire, leaving
there, they sailed close by Crete.
But not long after, a tempestuous
wind arose against it, called
Euroclydon.
So when the ship was caught,
and could not head into the wind,
we let her drive.
And running underneath an
island which is called Clauda,
we secured the smaller boat with
diffi culty.
Which, when they had taken
it on board, they used cables to
undergird the ship; and fearing
lest they should run aground on
the sandbanks, they struck sail
and so were driven.
And because we were exceedingly
tossed with a tempest, the
next day they lightened the ship.
And on the third day we threw
the ship’s tackle overboard with
our own hands.
Now when neither sun nor
stars appeared for many days,
and no small tempest beat on us,
all hope that we would be saved
was fi nally gone.
But after long abstinence from
food, then Paul stood in the midst
of them and said, “Men, you
should have listened to me, and
not have untied from Crete and
incurred this disaster and loss.
And now I urge you to be optimistic,
because there will be no
loss of any man’s life among you,
but only of the ship.
Because, there stood by me
this night the angel of the God to
whom I belong and whom I serve,
saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul;
you must be brought before
Caesar; and indeed God has
granted you all those who sail
with you.’
Therefore men, take heart,
because I believe God that it will
be just as it was told me.
However, we must run aground
on a certain island.”
Now when the fourteenth night
had come, as we were driven up
and down in the Adriatic Sea, about
midnight the sailors sensed that
they were drawing near some land.
And they took soundings and
found it to be twenty fathoms;
and when they had gone a little
farther, they took soundings
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again and found it to be fi fteen
fathoms.
Then, fearing lest we should
run aground on the rocks, they
dropped four anchors from the
stern, and wished for day to come.
And as the sailors were seeking
to escape from the ship, when
they had let down the small boat
into the sea, pretending to be
about to cast out anchors from
the front of the ship,
Paul said to the centurion and the
soldiers, “Unless these men stay in
the ship, you cannot all be saved.”
Then the soldiers cut away the
ropes of the small boat and let it
fall off .
And as day was about to dawn,
Paul implored them all to take food,
saying, “Today is the fourteenth
day you have waited and continued
fasting, and eaten nothing.
Therefore I urge you to take
some food, because this is for your
survival, because not a hair will
fall from the head of any of you.”
And when he had said these
things, he took bread and gave
thanks to God in the presence of
them all; and when he had broken
it he began to eat.
Then they were all encouraged,
and they also took some food.
And in all we were two hundred
and seventy six persons on
the ship.
So when they had eaten enough,
they lightened the ship and threw
out the wheat into the sea.
And when it was day, they did not
recognize the land; but they observed
a bay with a beach, onto which they
planned to drive the ship if possible.
And when they had taken up the
anchors, they committed themselves
to the sea, untied the rudder
ropes, hoisted the mainsail to the
wind, and made for shore.
And striking a place where
two seas met, they ran the ship
aground; and the front stuck fast
and remained immovable, but the
back part was being broken up by
the violence of the waves.
And the soldiers’ instructions
were to kill the prisoners, lest
any of them should swim away
and escape.
But the centurion, wanting to
save Paul, kept them from their
purpose, and commanded that
those who could swim should
throw themselves fi rst into the sea
and get to land,
and the rest, some on boards
and some on broken pieces of the
ship. And so it was that they all
escaped safely to land.
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Now when they had escaped,
they then discovered that the
island was called Malta.
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And the natives showed us no
small amount of kindness; because,
they kindled a fi re and made us all
welcome, because of the falling
rain and because of the cold.
But when Paul had gathered
a bundle of sticks and laid them
on the fi re, a viper came out
because of the heat, and fastened
on his hand.
So when the natives saw the
venomous creature hanging on his
hand, they said to one another,
“No doubt this man is a murderer,
whom, though he has escaped
the sea, yet justice does not allow
to live.”
But he shook off the creature
into the fi re and felt no harm.
However, they were expecting
that he would swell up or suddenly
fall down dead. But after
they had looked for a long time
and saw no harm come to him,
they changed their minds and
said that he was a god.
In that region there was an
estate of the leading citizen of the
island, whose name was Publius,
who received us and hosted us
hospitably for three days.
And it happened that the father
of Publius lay sick of a fever and
dysentery. Paul went in to him
and prayed, and he laid his hands
on him and healed him.
So when this was done, the rest
of those on the island who had diseases
also came and were healed.
They also honored us in many
ways; and when we departed,
they provided us with such things
as were necessary.
After three months we sailed
in an Alexandrian ship whose fi gurehead
was Castor and Pollux,
which had wintered at the island.
And landing at Syracuse, we
stayed there for three days.
From there we circled round
and reached Rhegium. And after
one day the south wind blew; and
the next day we came to Puteoli,
where we found brethren, and
were invited to stay with them
seven days. And so we went
toward Rome.
And from there, when the
brethren heard about us, they
came to meet us as far as Appii
Forum and Three Inns. When Paul
saw them, he thanked God and
took courage.
Now when we came to Rome,
the centurion delivered the prisoners
to the captain of the guard;
but Paul was permitted to dwell
by himself with the soldier who
guarded him.
And it came to pass after three
days that Paul called the leaders
of the Jews together. So when
they had come together, he said
to them: “Men and brethren,
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though I have done nothing
against our people or the customs
of our fathers, yet I was delivered
as a prisoner from Jerusalem into
the hands of the Romans,
who, when they had examined
me, wanted to let me go, because
there were no grounds for putting
me to death.
But when the Jews spoke against
it, I was compelled to appeal to
Caesar, not that I had anything of
which to accuse my nation.
For this reason therefore I have
called for you, to see you and speak
with you, because for the hope of
Israel I am bound with this chain.”
Then they said to him, “We neither
received letters from Judea
concerning you, nor have any of
the brethren who came reported
or spoken any evil of you.
But we desire to hear from you
what you think; for concerning
this sect, we know that it is spoken
against everywhere.”
So when they had appointed
him a day, many came to him at
his lodging, to whom he explained
and testifi ed of the kingdom of
God, persuading them concerning
Jesus from both the Law of
Moses and out of the Prophets,
from morning until evening.
And some were persuaded by
the things which were spoken,
and some disbelieved.
So when they did not agree
among themselves, they departed
after Paul had said one word: “The
Holy Spirit spoke rightly through
Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
saying, ‘Go to this people and
say: “Hearing you will hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing
you will see, and not perceive;
Because the hearts of this people
have grown dull. Their ears
are hard of hearing, and their eyes
they have closed, lest they should
see with their eyes, and hear with
their ears, and should understand
with their hearts, and be converted,
then I could heal them.”’
“Therefore let it be known to
you that the salvation of God has
been sent to the Gentiles, and they
will hear it!”
And when he had said these
words, the Jews departed and had
a great dispute among themselves.
Then Paul dwelt an entire two
years in his own rented house,
and received all who came to him,
preaching the kingdom of God
and teaching the things which
concern the Lord Jesus Christ
with all confi dence, no one
forbidding him.
THE LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
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Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,
called to be an apostle, separated
to the gospel of God,
which He had promised beforehand
through His prophets in the
Holy Scriptures,
concerning His Son Jesus Christ
our Lord, who was made of the seed
of David according to the fl esh,
and declared to be the Son of
God with power according to the
Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection
from the dead.
By whom we have received grace
and apostleship for obedience to
the faith among all nations for His
name,
among whom you also are the
called of Jesus Christ;
To all who are in Rome, beloved
of God, called to be saints: Grace
to you and peace from God our
Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
First, I thank my God through
Jesus Christ for you all, that your
faith is spoken of throughout the
entire world.
Because, God is my witness,
whom I serve with my spirit in
the gospel of His Son, that without
ceasing I make mention of you
always in my prayers,
making request if, by some
means, now at last I may have a
prosperous journey by the will of
God to come to you.
Because, I long to see you,
that I may impart to you some
spiritual gift, so that you may be
established;
that is, that I may be encouraged
together with you by the
mutual faith both of you and me.
Now I do not want you to be
unaware, brethren, that I often
planned to come to you, (but was
hindered until now), that I might
have some fruit among you also,
just as among other Gentiles.
I am a debtor both to the Greeks,
and to the Barbarians, both to the
wise, and to the unwise.
So, as much as is in me, I am
ready to preach the gospel to you
who are in Rome also.
Because, I am not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ, because it is
the power of God to salvation to
everyone who believes, for the
Jew fi rst, and also for the Greek.
Because in it, the righteousness
of God is revealed from faith
to faith; as it is written, “The just
will live by faith.”
Because, the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness
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of men, who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness,
because what may be known of
God is manifest in them, because
God has shown it to them.
Because, since the creation of
the world His invisible attributes
are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even
His eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse,
because although they knew
God, they did not glorify Him
as God, nor were thankful, but
became vain in their imaginations,
and their foolish hearts
were darkened.
Professing themselves to be
wise, they became fools,
and changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image
made like to corruptible man, and
to birds and four footed animals
and creeping things.
Therefore God also gave them
up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to
dishonor their bodies among
themselves,
who changed the truth of
God into lie, and worshiped and
served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blessed forever.
Amen.
For this reason God gave them
over to vile passions. Because,
even their women exchanged the
natural use for what is against
nature.
And likewise also the men,
leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust for
one another, men with men doing
what is shameful, and receiving in
themselves that penalty of their
error which was due.
And even as they did not like
to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate
mind, to do those things
which are not appropriate;
being fi lled with all unrighteousness,
sexual immorality,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;
full of envy, murder,
debate, deception, malignity;
being whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God, violent,
proud, boasters, inventors
of evil things, disobedient to
parents,
without understanding, covenant
breakers, without natural
aff ection, implacable, unmerciful;
who knowing the judgment
of God, that those who commit
such things are worthy of death,
not only do the same but approve
those who do them.
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Therefore you are inexcusable, O
man, whoever you are who judge,
because, in whatever you judge
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another you condemn yourself;
because you who judge practice
the same things.
But we are certain that the
judgment of God is according to
truth against those who commit
such things.
And do you think this, O man,
you who judge those who do
such things, and doing the same,
that you will escape the judgment
of God?
Or do you despise the riches of
His goodness, forbearance, and
longsuff ering, not knowing that
the goodness of God leads you to
repentance?
But according to your hardness
and your impenitent heart you are
treasuring up for yourself wrath
in the day of wrath and revelation
of the righteous judgment of God,
who “will render to each one
according to his deeds”:
eternal life to those who by
patient continuance in doing
good seek for glory, honor, and
immortality;
but to those who are contentious
and do not obey the truth,
but obey unrighteousness, indignation
and wrath,
tribulation and anguish, on
every soul of man who does evil,
of the Jew fi rst and also of the
Gentile;
but glory, honor, and peace
to everyone who works what is
good, to the Jew fi rst and also to
the Gentile.
Because there is no personal
favoritism with God.
Because, as many as have
sinned without law will also perish
without law, and as many as
have sinned in the law will be
judged by the law
(because, not the hearers of the
law are just in the sight of God,
but the doers of the law will be
justifi ed;
because, when the Gentiles, who
do not have the law, by nature do
the things contained in the law,
these, although not having the
law, are a law to themselves,
who show the work of the law
written in their hearts, their
conscience also bearing witness,
and between themselves their
thoughts accusing or else excusing
them)
in the day when God will judge
the secrets of men by Jesus Christ,
according to my gospel.
Indeed you are called a Jew, and
rest in the law, and make your
boast in God,
and know His will, and approve
the things that are more excellent,
being instructed out of the law,
and are confi dent that you
yourself are a guide to the blind, a
light to those who are in darkness,
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an instructor of the foolish, a
teacher of babes, who has the
form of knowledge and of the
truth in the law.
You, therefore, who teach
another, do you not teach yourself?
You who preach that a man
should not steal, do you steal?
You who say, “A man should not
commit adultery,” do you commit
adultery? You who abhor idols, do
you commit sacrilege?
You who make your boast in the
law, do you dishonor God through
breaking the law?
Because, “the name of God is
blasphemed among the Gentiles
because of you,” as it is written.
Because, circumcision is indeed
profi table if you keep the law; but
if you are a breaker of the law,
your circumcision has become
uncircumcision.
Therefore, if an uncircumcised
man keeps the righteous
requirements of the law, will not
his uncircumcision be counted as
circumcision?
And will not the physically
uncircumcised, if he fulfi lls the
law, judge you who, even with
your written code and circumcision,
are a transgressor of the law?
Because, he is not a Jew who is
one outwardly, nor is that circumcision
that which is outward in
the fl esh;
but he is a Jew who is one
inwardly; and circumcision is that
of the heart, in the Spirit, and not
in the letter; whose praise is not
from men but from God.
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What advantage then has
the Jew, or what is the profi t of
circumcision?
Much in every way! Chiefl y
because to them were committed
the oracles of God.
Because, what if some did not
believe? Will their unbelief make
the faith of God without eff ect?
God forbid! Indeed, let God be
true but every man a liar. As it is
written: “That You may be justifi
ed in Your words, and may
overcome when You are judged.”
But if our unrighteousness
demonstrates the righteousness
of God, what shall we say? Is
God unjust who infl icts wrath? (I
speak as a man.)
God forbid! Because then how
will God judge the world?
Because, if the truth of God has
increased through my lie to His
glory, why am I also still judged as
a sinner?
So why not just say, “Let us do
evil that good may come,” As we
are slanderously reported and as
some affi rm that we say? Their
damnation is just.
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What then? Are we better than
they? Not at all. Because we have
previously charged both Jews and
Greeks that they are all under sin.
As it is written: “There is none
righteous, no, not one;
There is none who understands;
there is none who seeks after God.
They have all turned aside; they
have together become unprofi table;
there is none who does good,
no, not one.”
“Their throat is an open tomb;
with their tongues they have
practiced deceit”; “The poison of
asps is under their lips”;
“Whose mouth is full of cursing
and bitterness.”
“Their feet are swift to shed
blood;
destruction and misery are in
their ways;
and the way of peace they have
not known.”
“There is no reverence of God
before their eyes.”
Now we know that whatever the
law says, it says to those who are
under the law, that every mouth
may be stopped, and all the world
may become guilty before God.
Therefore by the deeds of the
law no fl esh will be justifi ed in His
sight, because by the law is the
knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness
of God apart from the law is
revealed, being witnessed by the
Law and the Prophets,
even the righteousness of God,
which is by the faith of Jesus Christ,
to all and on all those who believe.
Because there is no diff erence;
because all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God,
being justifi ed freely by His
grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus,
whom God foreordained to be a
propitiation through faith in His
blood, to demonstrate His righteousness,
for the remission of sins
that were previously committed,
through the forbearance of God;
to demonstrate at the present
time His righteousness, that He
might be just and the justifi er of
the one who believes in Jesus.
Where is boasting then? It is
excluded. By what law? Of works?
No, but by the law of faith.
Therefore we conclude that a
man is justifi ed by faith without
the deeds of the law.
Is He the God of the Jews only?
Is He not also the God of the
Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
since there is one God who will
justify the circumcised by faith and
the uncircumcised through faith.
Do we then make void the law
through faith? God forbid! On the
contrary, we establish the law.
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What then shall we say that
Abraham our father has found
according to the fl esh?
Because, if Abraham was justifi
ed by works, he has something to
boast about, but not before God.
Because what does the Scripture
say? “Abraham believed God,
and it was accounted to him for
righteousness.”
Now to him who works, the
wages are not counted as grace
but as debt.
But to him who does not work
but believes on Him who justifi es
the ungodly, his faith is accounted
for righteousness,
just as David also describes the
blessedness of the man to whom
God imputes righteousness apart
from works:
Saying “Blessed are those whose
iniquities are forgiven, and whose
sins are covered;
blessed is the man to whom the
LORD will not impute sin.”
Does this blessedness
then come upon the circumcised
only, or upon the uncircumcised
also? Because we say that faith
was accounted to Abraham for
righteousness.
How then was it accounted?
While he was circumcised, or
uncircumcised? Not while circumcised,
but while uncircumcised.
And he received the sign of
circumcision, a seal of the righteousness
of the faith which he
had while still uncircumcised,
that he might be the father of all
those who believe, though they
are uncircumcised, that righteousness
might be imputed to
them also,
and the father of circumcision
to those who not only are of the
circumcision, but who also walk in
the steps of the faith of our father
Abraham, which he had while still
uncircumcised.
Because, the promise that
he would be the heir of the
world was not to Abraham or to his
seed through the law, but through
the righteousness of faith.
Because, if those who are of the
law are heirs, faith is made void
and the promise made of no eff ect,
because, the law brings about
wrath; because where there is no
law there is no transgression.
Therefore it is of faith that it
might be by grace, so that the
promise might be certain to all
the seed, not only to those who
are of the law, but also to those
who are of the faith of Abraham,
who is the father of us all
(as it is written, “I have made you
a father of many nations”) in the
presence of Him whom he believed,
even God, who gives life to the dead
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and calls those things which do not
exist as though they did;
who, contrary to hope, in hope
believed, so that he would become
the father of many nations,
according to what was spoken,
“So will your seed be.”
And not being weak in faith,
he did not consider his own body,
now dead (since he was about a
hundred years old), nor the deadness
of Sarah’s womb.
He did not waver at the promise
of God through unbelief, but was
strong in faith, giving glory to God,
and being fully persuaded that
what He had promised He was
also able to perform.
And therefore “it was imputed
to him for righteousness.”
Now it was not written
for his sake alone that it was
imputed to him,
but also for us. It will be
imputed to us, if we believe in
Him who raised up Jesus our Lord
from the dead,
who was delivered for our
off enses, and was raised again
because of our justifi cation.
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Therefore, having been justifi ed
by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom also we have access by
faith into this grace in which we
stand, and rejoice in hope of the
glory of God.
And not only that, but we also
glory in tribulations, knowing
that tribulation produces
perseverance;
and perseverance, character;
and character, hope.
Now hope does not make us
ashamed, because the love of
God has been poured out in our
hearts by the Holy Spirit who was
given to us.
Because, when we were still
without strength, in due time
Christ died for the ungodly.
Because, scarcely for a righteous
man will one die; yet perhaps for
a good man someone would even
dare to die.
But God demonstrates His own
love toward us, in that while we
were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, having now
been justifi ed by His blood, we will
be saved from wrath through Him.
Because, if when we were enemies
we were reconciled to God
through the death of His Son,
much more, having been reconciled,
we will be saved by His life.
And not only that, but we also
rejoice in God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom we have
now received the atonement.
Therefore, just as by one man
sin entered the world, and death
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by sin, and thus death spread to
everyone, because all sinned:
(Because, until the law sin
was in the world, but sin is not
imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned
from Adam to Moses, even
over those who had not sinned
according to the likeness of the
transgression of Adam, who is a
type of Him who was to come.
But the free gift is not like the
off ense. Because, if through the
one man’s off ense many died, much
more the grace of God and the gift
by grace, which is by one Man, Jesus
Christ, has abounded to many.
And the gift is not like that which
came through the one who sinned.
Because the judgment which came
from one off ense resulted in
condemnation, but the free gift
which came from many off enses
resulted in justifi cation.
Because, if by the one man’s
off ense death reigned by one,
much more those who receive
abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness will reign in life
by One, Jesus Christ.)
Therefore, as by one man’s
off ense judgment came upon all
mankind, resulting in condemnation,
even so by one Man’s
righteous act the free gift came to
all mankind, resulting in justifi cation
of life.
Because, as by one man’s disobedience
many were made sinners,
so also by the obedience of One
many will be made righteous.
Moreover the law entered
that the off ense might abound.
But where sin abounded, grace
abounded much more,
so that as sin reigned in
death, even so grace might reign
through righteousness to eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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What shall we say then? Shall
we continue in sin that grace
may abound?
God forbid! How shall we who
died to sin live any longer in it?
Or do you not know that as
many of us as were baptized into
Jesus Christ were baptized into
His death?
Therefore we were buried with
Him by baptism into death, that
just as Christ was raised up from
the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life.
Because, if we have been planted
together in the likeness of His
death, we will be also in the likeness
of His resurrection,
knowing this, that our old man
was crucifi ed with Him, that the
body of sin might be destroyed,
that we should no longer serve sin.
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Because he who has died has
been freed from sin.
Now if we died with Christ,
we believe that we will also live
with Him,
knowing that Christ, having
been raised from the dead, dies no
more. Death no longer has dominion
over Him.
Because, in the death that He
died, He died to sin once; but the
life that He lives, He lives to God.
Likewise you also, reckon yourselves
to be dead indeed to sin,
but alive to God in Jesus Christ
our Lord.
Therefore do not let sin reign in
your mortal body, that you should
obey it in its lusts.
And do not present your members
as instruments of unrighteousness
to sin, but present yourselves to
God as those who are alive from the
dead, and your members as instruments
of righteousness to God.
Because, sin will not have
dominion over you, because you
are not under law but under grace.
What then? Shall we sin because
we are not under law but under
grace? God forbid!
Do you not know that to whom
you present yourselves servants
to obey, you are that one’s servant
whom you obey, whether of sin
leading to death, or of obedience
leading to righteousness?
But God be thanked that
though you were servants of sin,
yet you obeyed from the heart
that form of doctrine which was
delivered to you.
And having been set free from
sin, you became servants of
righteousness.
I speak in human terms
because of the weakness of your
fl esh. Because, just as you presented
your members as servants
of uncleanness, and of iniquity
leading to more iniquity,
so now present your members
as servants of righteousness for
holiness.
Because when you were servants
of sin, you were free from
righteousness.
What fruit did you have then
in the things of which you are
now ashamed? Because the end of
those things is death.
But now having been set free
from sin, and having become servants
of God, you have your fruit
to holiness, and the end, everlasting
life.
Because, the wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Or do you not know, brethren
(because I speak to those who
know the law), that the law has
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dominion over a man as long as
he lives?
Because, the woman who has a
husband is bound by the law to
her husband as long as he lives.
But if the husband dies, she is
released from the law of her
husband.
So then if, while her husband
lives, she marries another man,
she will be called an adulteress;
but if her husband dies, she is free
from that law, so that she is no
adulteress, though she has married
another man.
Therefore, my brethren, you also
have become dead to the law by
the body of Christ, that you may
be married to another, even to Him
who was raised from the dead,
that we should bear fruit to God.
Because, when we were in the
fl esh, the sinful passions which
were through the law were at
work in our members to bear fruit
to death.
But now we have been delivered
from the law, that which we
were held by being dead, so that
we should serve in the newness of
the spirit and not in the oldness of
the letter.
What shall we say then? Is the
law sin? God forbid! On the contrary,
I would not have known
sin except through the law.
Because, I would not have known
covetousness unless the law had
said, “You shall not covet.”
But sin, taking opportunity by
the commandment, produced
in me all manner of evil desire.
Because apart from the law
sin was dead.
Because, I was alive once without
the law, but when the commandment
came, sin revived and I died.
And the commandment, which
was appointed for life, I found to
bring death.
Because sin, taking occasion by
the commandment, deceived me,
and by it killed me.
Therefore the law is holy, and
the commandment holy and just
and good.
Has then what is good become
death to me? God forbid! But
sin, that it might appear sin, was
producing death in me by what
is good, so that sin through the
commandment might become
exceedingly sinful.
Because, we know that the law
is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold
under sin.
Because what I am doing, I do
not approve. Because what I will
to do, that I do not do; but what I
hate, that I do.
If, then, I do what I will not to do,
I agree with the law that it is good.
But now, it is no longer I who do
it, but sin that dwells in me.
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Because, I know that in me
(that is, in my fl esh) nothing good
dwells; because, to will is present
with me, but how to perform what
is good I do not fi nd.
Because, the good that I will to
do, I do not do; but the evil I will
not to do, that I do.
Now if I do what I will not to do,
it is no longer I who do it, but sin
that dwells in me.
I fi nd then a law, that when I will
to do good, evil is present with me.
Because, I delight in the law of
God according to the inward man.
But I see another law in my
members, warring against the law
of my mind, and bringing me into
captivity to the law of sin which is
in my members.
O wretched man that I am! Who
shall deliver me from the body of
this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ
our Lord! So then, with the mind
I myself serve the law of God, but
with the fl esh the law of sin.
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There is therefore now no condemnation
to those who are in
Christ Jesus, who do not walk
according to the fl esh, but according
to the Spirit.
Because, the law of the Spirit of
life in Christ Jesus has made me
free from the law of sin and death.
Because what the law could not
do in that it was weak through
the fl esh, God did by sending His
own Son in the likeness of sinful
fl esh, and for sin: condemned sin
in the fl esh,
that the righteous requirement
of the law might be fulfi lled in us
who do not walk according to the
fl esh but according to the Spirit.
Because, those who live according
to the fl esh mind the things
of the fl esh, but those who live
according to the Spirit, the things
of the Spirit.
Because, to be carnally minded
is death, but to be spiritually
minded is life and peace.
Because, the carnal mind is
enmity against God; because it is
not subject to the law of God, nor
indeed can it be.
So then, those who are in the
fl esh cannot please God.
But you are not in the fl esh but
in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of
God dwells in you. Now if anyone
does not have the Spirit of Christ,
he is not His.
And if Christ is in you, the
body is dead because of sin,
but the Spirit is life because of
righteousness.
But if the Spirit of Him who
raised up Jesus from the dead
dwells in you, He who raised up
Christ from the dead will also give
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life to your mortal bodies by His
Spirit who dwells in you.
Therefore, brethren, we are
debtors, not to the fl esh, to live
according to the fl esh.
Because, if you live according
to the fl esh you will die; but
if through the Spirit you put to
death the deeds of the body, you
will live.
Because, as many as are led
by the Spirit of God, these are
sons of God.
Because, you did not receive
the spirit of bondage again to fear,
but you have received the Spirit
of adoption by whom we cry out,
“Abba, Father.”
The Spirit Himself bears witness
with our spirit that we are
children of God,
and if children, then heirs, heirs
of God and joint heirs with Christ,
providing we suff er with Him, that
we may also be glorifi ed together.
Because, I consider that the
suff erings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the
glory which will be revealed in us.
Because, the earnest expectation
of the creature waits for the
revealing of the sons of God.
Because, the creature was subjected
to vanity, not willingly, but
because of Him who subjected it
in hope;
because, the creature itself also
will be delivered from the bondage
of corruption into the glorious
liberty of the children of God.
Because, we know that the entire
creation groans and labors with
birth pangs together until now.
And not only they, but we also
who have the fi rstfruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan
within ourselves, eagerly waiting
for the adoption, that is the
redemption of our body.
Because, we were saved by
hope, but hope that is seen is not
hope; because why does one still
hope for what he sees?
But if we hope for what we do
not see, then we eagerly wait for it
with perseverance.
Likewise the Spirit also helps
in our weaknesses. Because, we
do not know what we should pray
for as we ought, but the Spirit
Himself makes intercession for us
with groanings which cannot be
uttered.
Now He who searches the
hearts knows what the mind of
the Spirit is, because He makes
intercession for the saints
according to the will of God.
And we know that all things
work together for good to those
who love God, to those who are the
called according to His purpose.
Because, whom He foreknew, He
also predestined to be conformed
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to the image of His Son, that He
might be the fi rstborn among
many brethren.
Moreover whom He predestined,
these He also called; whom
He called, these He also justifi ed;
and whom He justifi ed, these He
also glorifi ed.
What then shall we say to these
things? If God is for us, who can be
against us?
He who did not spare His own
Son, but delivered Him up for us
all, how will He not with Him also
freely give us all things?
Who shall bring a charge against
God’s elect? It is God who justifi es.
Who is he who condemns? It
is Christ who died, and furthermore
is also risen, who is even at
the right hand of God, who also
makes intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written: “For Your sake
we are killed all day long; we
are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter.”
Yet in all these things we are
more than conquerors through
Him who loved us.
Because, I am persuaded that
neither death nor life, nor angels
nor principalities nor powers, nor
things present nor things to come,
nor height nor depth, nor any
other creature, will be able to
separate us from the love of God
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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I tell the truth in Christ, I am not
lying, my conscience also bearing
me witness in the Holy Spirit,
that I have great heaviness and
continual sorrow in my heart.
Because, I could wish that I
myself were accursed from Christ
for my brethren, my countrymen
according to the fl esh,
who are Israelites, to whom pertain
the adoption, the glory, the
covenants, the giving of the law, the
service of God, and the promises;
of whom are the fathers and
of whom, according to the fl esh,
Christ came, who is over all,
blessed by God forever. Amen.
But it is not that the word of God
has taken no eff ect. Because, they
are not all Israel who are of Israel,
nor are they all children because
they are the seed of Abraham; but,
“In Isaac your seed will be called.”
That is, those who are the children
of the fl esh, these are not the
children of God; but the children
of the promise are counted as the
seed.
Because, this is the word of
promise: “At this time I will come
and Sarah will have a son.”
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And not only this, but when
Rebecca also had conceived by
one man, that is by our father Isaac
(because, the children being not
yet born, nor having done any
good or evil, that the purpose of
God according to election might
stand, not of works but of Him
who calls),
it was said to her, “The older
will serve the younger.”
As it is written, “Jacob I have
loved, but Esau I have hated.”
What shall we say then? Is
there unrighteousness with God?
God forbid!
Because, He says to Moses, “I
will have mercy on whomever I
will have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whomever I will
have compassion.”
So then it is not of him who
wills, nor of him who runs, but of
God who shows mercy.
Because, the Scripture says to
the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose
I have raised you up, that I
may show My power in you, and
that My name may be declared
throughout all the earth.”
Therefore He has mercy on
whom He will have mercy, and
whom He wills He hardens.
You will say to me then, “Why
does He still fi nd fault? Because
who has resisted His will?”
But indeed, O man, who are
you to reply against God? Shall
the thing formed say to him who
formed it, “Why have you made
me like this?”
Does not the potter have power
over the clay, from the same lump
to make one vessel for honor and
another for dishonor?
What if God, wanting to show
His wrath and to make His power
known, endured with much longsuff
ering the vessels of wrath
prepared for destruction,
and that He might make known
the riches of His glory on the
vessels of mercy, which He had
prepared beforehand for glory,
even us whom He called, not
of the Jews only, but also of the
Gentiles?
As He says also in Hosea: “I will
call them My people, who were
not My people, and her beloved,
who was not beloved.”
“And it will come to pass that
in the place where it was said to
them, ‘You are not My people,’
There they will be called children
of the living God.”
Isaiah also proclaims concerning
Israel: “Though the number of the
children of Israel be as the sand of
the sea, a remnant will be saved.
Because, He will fi nish the work
and cut it short in righteousness,
because the Lord will make a
short work upon the earth.”
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And as Isaiah said before:
“Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had
left us a seed, we would have
become like Sodom, and we would
have been made like Gomorrah.”
What shall we say then? That
Gentiles, who did not pursue
righteousness, have attained to
righteousness, even the righteousness
which is of faith;
but Israel, pursuing the law of
righteousness, has not attained to
the law of righteousness.
Why? Because, they did not seek
it by faith, but as it were, by the
works of the law. Because they
stumbled at that stumbling stone.
As it is written: “Behold, I lay in
Zion a stumbling stone and rock
of off ense, and whoever believes
on Him will not be put to shame.”
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Brethren, my heart’s desire and
prayer to God for Israel is that
they might be saved.
Because, I bear them record that
they have a zeal for God, but not
according to knowledge.
Because, they being ignorant of
God’s righteousness, and seeking
to establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves
to the righteousness of God.
Because Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to everyone
who believes.
Because, Moses writes about the
righteousness which is of the law,
“That the man who does those
things shall live by them.”
But the righteousness that is of
faith speaks in this way, “Do not
say in your heart, ‘Who shall ascend
into heaven?’” (that is, to
bring Christ down from above)
or, “‘Who shall descend into the
abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ
up from the dead).
But what does it say? “The word
is near you, even in your mouth
and in your heart” (that is, the
word of faith which we preach):
that if you confess with your
mouth the Lord Jesus and will believe
in your heart that God has
raised Him from the dead, you
will be saved.
Because, with the heart one believes
to righteousness, and with
the mouth confession is made to
salvation.
Because, the Scripture says,
“Whoever believes on Him will
not be put to shame.”
Because, there is no distinction
between the Jew and the Greek,
because the same Lord over all is
rich to all who call upon Him.
Because “whoever calls on the
name of the Lord will be saved.”
How then shall they call on Him
in whom they have not believed?
And how shall they believe in Him
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of whom they have not heard?
And how shall they hear without
a preacher?
And how shall they preach unless
they are sent? As it is written:
“How beautiful are the feet
of those who preach the gospel
of peace, and bring glad tidings of
good things!”
But they have not all obeyed the
gospel. Because, Isaiah says, “LORD,
who has believed our report?”
So then faith comes by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God.
But I say, have they not heard?
Yes indeed: “Their sound has
gone out to all the earth, and their
words to the ends of the world.”
But I say, did Israel not know?
First Moses says: “I will provoke
you to jealousy by those who are
not a people, and I will move you
to anger by a foolish nation.”
But Isaiah is very bold and says:
“I was found by those who did not
seek Me; I was made manifest to
those who did not ask for Me.”
But to Israel he says: “All day
long I have stretched out My
hands to a disobedient and contrary
people.”
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I say then, has God cast away
His people? God forbid! Because, I
also am an Israelite, of the seed of
Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
God has not cast away His people
whom He foreknew. Or do you
not know what the Scripture says
of Elijah, how he makes intercession
to God against Israel, saying,
“LORD, they have killed Your
prophets and torn down Your
altars, and I alone am left, and
they seek my life”?
But what does God reply to him?
“I have reserved for Myself seven
thousand men who have not bowed
the knee to the image of Baal.”
Even so then, at this present
time there is a remnant according
to the election of grace.
And if by grace, then it is no
longer of works; otherwise grace
is no longer grace. But if it is of
works, it is no longer grace; otherwise
work is no longer work.
What then? Israel has not
obtained what it seeks after; but
the elect have obtained it, and the
rest were blinded.
Just as it is written: “God has
given them a spirit of slumber,
eyes that they should not see and
ears that they should not hear, to
this very day.”
And David says: “Let their table
become a snare and a trap, a
stumbling block and a retribution
to them.
Let their eyes be darkened, so
that they cannot see, and bow
down their back always.”
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I say then, have they stumbled
that they should fall? God forbid!
But rather through their fall, salvation
has come to the Gentiles, to
provoke them to jealousy,
Now if their fall became riches
of the world, and their failure the
riches of the Gentiles, how much
more their fullness!
Because, I speak to you Gentiles;
inasmuch as I am an apostle to the
Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
if by any means I may provoke
to jealousy those who are my fl esh
and might save some of them.
Because, if their rejection is the
reconciling of the world, what
shall their acceptance be but life
from the dead?
Because, if the fi rstfruit is holy,
the lump is also holy; and if the
root is holy, so are the branches.
And if some of the branches
were broken off , and you, being
a wild olive tree, were grafted
in among them, and with them
became a partaker of the root and
nourishment of the olive tree,
do not boast against the
branches. But if you do boast,
remember that you do not support
the root, but the root
supports you.
You will say then, “Branches
were broken off that I might be
grafted in.”
Well said. Because of unbelief
they were broken off , and you
stand by faith. Do not be highminded,
but have reverence.
Because, if God did not spare
the natural branches, He may not
spare you either.
Therefore consider the goodness
and severity of God: on those
who fell, severity; but toward you,
goodness, if you continue in His
goodness. Otherwise you also will
be cut off .
And they also, if they do not
continue in unbelief, will be
grafted in, because God is able to
graft them in again.
Because, if you were cut out
of the olive tree which is wild by
nature, and were grafted contrary
to nature into a good olive tree,
how much more will these, who
are natural branches, be grafted
into their own olive tree?
Because, I do not desire, brethren,
that you should be ignorant
of this mystery, lest you should
be wise in your own opinion, that
blindness in part has happened
to Israel until the fullness of the
Gentiles has come in.
And so all Israel will be saved,
as it is written: “The Deliverer will
come out of Zion, and He will turn
away ungodliness from Jacob;
Because, this is My covenant
with them, when I will take away
their sins.”
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Concerning the gospel they
are enemies for your sake, but
concerning the election they are
beloved because of the fathers.
Because the gifts and the calling
of God are irrevocable.
Because, as you previously did
not believe God, yet have now
obtained mercy through their
unbelief,
even so these also have now
not believed, that through the
mercy shown you they also may
obtain mercy.
Because, God has concluded
them all in unbelief, that He
might have mercy on all.
Oh, the depth of the riches both
of the wisdom and knowledge of
God! How unsearchable are His
judgments and His ways past
fi nding out!
“Because, who has known the
mind of the LORD? Or who has
become His counselor?”
“Or who has fi rst given to Him
and it will be repaid to him?”
Because, of Him and through
Him and to Him are all things, to
whom be glory forever. Amen.
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I urge you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that you
present your bodies a living sacrifi
ce, holy, acceptable to God, which
is your reasonable service.
And do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you
may prove what is that good and
acceptable and perfect will of God.
Because I say, through the grace
given to me, to everyone who is
among you, not to think of himself
more highly than he ought to
think, but to think soberly, just as
God has dealt to each one a measure
of faith.
Because, as we have many
members in one body, but all the
members do not have the same
function,
so we, being many, are one body
in Christ, and individually members
of one another.
Having then gifts diff ering
according to the grace that is
given to us: if prophecy, let us
prophesy according to the proportion
of faith;
or ministry, let us use it in our
ministering; he who teaches, in
teaching;
he who exhorts, in exhortation;
he who gives, let him do it with
liberality; he who leads, with diligence;
he who shows mercy, with
cheerfulness.
Let love be without hypocrisy.
Abhor what is evil. Cling to what
is good.
Be aff ectionate to one another
as family with brotherly love, in
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honor giving preference to one
another;
not lagging in diligence, fervent
in spirit, serving the Lord;
rejoicing in hope, patient in
tribulation, continuing steadfastly
in prayer;
distributing to the needs of the
saints, given to hospitality.
Bless those who persecute you;
bless and do not curse.
Rejoice with those who rejoice,
and weep with those who weep.
Be of the same mind toward one
another. Do not set your mind on
high things, but associate with
the humble. Do not be wise in
your own opinion.
Repay no one evil for evil.
Provide things that are honest in
the sight of everyone.
If it is possible, as much as
depends on you, live peaceably
with everyone.
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves,
but rather give place to
wrath; because it is written,
“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”
says the Lord.
Therefore “If your enemy
hungers, feed him; if he thirsts,
give him a drink; because in so
doing you will heap coals of fi re
on his head.”
Do not be overcome by evil, but
overcome evil with good.
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Let every soul be subject to the
governing authorities. Because,
there is no authority except from
God; the authorities that exist are
appointed by God.
Therefore whoever resists the
authority resists the ordinance
of God, and those who resist will
bring damnation on themselves.
Because, rulers are not a terror to
good conduct, but to evil. Do you
want to be unafraid of the authority?
Do what is good, and you will
have praise from the same.
Because, he is God’s minister to
you for good. But if you do that
which is evil, be afraid; because
he does not bear the sword in
vain; because he is God’s minister,
an avenger to execute wrath on
him who does evil.
Therefore you must be subject,
not only because of wrath but also
for conscience’ sake.
Because, for this reason you also
pay taxes, because they are God’s
ministers attending continually
to this very thing.
Render therefore to all their
due: taxes to whom taxes are due,
customs to whom customs, reverence
to whom reverence, honor
to whom honor.
Owe no one anything except to
love one another, because he who
loves another has fulfi lled the law.
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Because these, “You shall not
commit adultery,” “You shall not
murder,” “You shall not steal,”
“You shall not bear false witness,”
“You shall not covet,” and if there
is any other commandment,
are all summed up in this saying,
namely, “You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.”
Love does no harm to a
neighbor; therefore love is the fulfi
llment of the law.
And this, knowing the time,
that now it is high time to awake
out of sleep; because now our
salvation is nearer than when we
fi rst believed.
The night is well advanced, the
day is at hand. Therefore let us
cast off the works of darkness, and
let us put on the armor of light.
Let us walk honestly, as in the
day, not in riotous behavior and
drunkenness, not in lewdness and
lust, not in strife and envy.
But you, put on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make no provision for
the fl esh, to fulfi ll its lusts.
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Receive one who is weak in the
faith, but not to disputes over
doubtful things.
Because, one believes he may
eat all things, but he who is weak
eats only vegetables.
Let not him who eats despise
him who does not eat, and let
not him who does not eat judge
him who eats; because God has
received him.
Who are you to judge another’s
servant? To his own master he
stands or falls. Indeed, he will be
able to stand, because God is able
to make him stand.
One person esteems one day
above another; another esteems
every day alike. Let each be fully
convinced in his own mind.
He who observes the day,
observes it to the Lord; and he
who does not observe the day, to
the Lord he does not observe it. He
who eats, eats to the Lord, because
he gives God thanks; and he who
does not eat, to the Lord he does
not eat, and gives God thanks.
Because none of us lives to himself,
and no one dies to himself.
Because, if we live, we live to the
Lord; and if we die, we die to the
Lord. So whether we live or die,
we are the Lord’s.
Because, for this purpose Christ
both died, and rose, and revived,
that He might be Lord of both the
dead and the living.
But why do you judge your
brother? Or why do you show contempt
for your brother? Because
we will all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ.
Because, it is written: “As I live,
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says the LORD, every knee will
bow to Me, and every tongue will
confess to God.”
So then each of us will give
account of himself to God.
Therefore let us not judge one
another anymore, but rather
resolve this, not to put a stumbling
block or a reason to fall in
his brother’s way.
I know and am convinced by
the Lord Jesus that there is nothing
unclean of itself; but to him
who considers anything to be
unclean, to him it is unclean.
But if your brother is grieved
because of your food, you are no
longer walking in love. Do not
destroy with your food the one
who Christ died for.
Therefore do not let your good
be spoken of as evil;
because, the kingdom of God is
not eating and drinking, but righteousness
and peace and joy in
the Holy Spirit.
Because, he who serves Christ
in these things is acceptable to
God and approved by men.
Therefore let us pursue the
things which make for peace and
the things by which one may
edify another.
Do not destroy the work of God
for the sake of food. All things
indeed are pure, but it is evil for
the man who eats with off ense.
It is good neither to eat meat nor
drink grape juice nor do anything by
which your brother stumbles or is
off ended or is made weak.
Do you have faith? Have it to
yourself before God. Happy is he
who does not condemn himself in
those things which he approves.
But he who doubts is damned
if he eats, because he does
not eat from faith; because whatever
is not from faith is sin.
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We then who are strong ought
to bear with the failures of the
weak, and not to please ourselves.
Let each of us please his neighbor
for his good, leading to
edifi cation.
Because, even Christ did not
please Himself; but as it is written,
“The reproaches of those
who reproached You fell on Me.”
Because, whatever things were
written beforehand were written
for our learning, that we through
the patience and comfort of the
Scriptures might have hope.
Now may the God of patience
and comfort grant you to be like
minded toward one another,
according to Christ Jesus,
that you may with one mind and
one mouth glorify God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You therefore, receive one
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another, just as Christ also
received us, to the glory of God.
Now I say that Jesus Christ has
become a servant to the circumcision
for the truth of God, to
confi rm the promises made to the
fathers,
and that the Gentiles might
glorify God for His mercy, as it
is written: “For this reason I
will confess to You among the
Gentiles, and sing to Your name.”
And again he says: “Rejoice, O
Gentiles, with His people!”
And again: “Praise the LORD,
all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you
people!”
And again, Isaiah says: “There
will be a root of Jesse; and He who
will rise to reign over the Gentiles,
in Him the Gentiles will trust.”
Now may the God of hope fi ll
you with all joy and peace in
believing, that you may abound
in hope through the power of the
Holy Spirit.
Now I myself am persuaded
concerning you, my brethren,
that you also are full of goodness,
fi lled with all knowledge, able
also to admonish one another.
Nevertheless, brethren, I have
written more boldly to you on some
points, as reminding you, because
of the grace given to me by God,
that I might be a minister
of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,
ministering the gospel of God,
that the off ering up of the Gentiles
might be acceptable, being sanctifi
ed by the Holy Spirit.
Therefore I have reason to glory
through Jesus Christ in those
things which pertain to God.
Because, I will not dare to speak
of any of those things which
Christ has not accomplished
through me, in word and deed, to
make the Gentiles obedient,
in mighty signs and wonders,
by the power of the Spirit of God,
so that from Jerusalem and round
about to Illyricum I have fully
preached the gospel of Christ.
Yes, so I have striven to preach
the gospel, not where Christ was
named, lest I should build on
another man’s foundation,
but as it is written: “To whom
He was not announced, they will
see; and those who have not heard
will understand.”
For this reason I also have been
often hindered from coming to you.
But now no longer having a
place in these parts, and having a
great desire these many years to
come to you,
whenever I take my journey to
Spain, I will come to you. Because,
I hope to see you on my journey,
and to be helped on my way there
by you, once I have enjoyed your
company for a while.
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But now I am going to Jerusalem
to minister to the saints.
Because, it pleased those from
Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain
contribution for the poor among
the saints who are in Jerusalem.
It has pleased them indeed, and
they are their debtors. Because, if the
Gentiles have been partakers of their
spiritual things, their duty is also to
minister to them in material things.
Therefore, when I have performed
this and have sealed to them this
fruit, I will come via you into Spain.
But I know that when I come to
you, I will come in the fullness of
the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Now I urge you, brethren, for
the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and for the love of the Spirit, that
you strive together with me in
prayers to God for me,
that I may be delivered from
those in Judea who do not believe,
and that my service which I have
for Jerusalem may be accepted by
the saints,
that I may come to you with
joy by the will of God, and may be
refreshed together with you.
Now the God of peace be with
you all. Amen.
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I commend to you Phoebe our
sister, who is a servant of the
church in Cenchrea,
that you may receive her in the
Lord in a manner worthy of the
saints, and that you assist her in
whatever business she has need
of you; because she has been a
helper of many and of myself also.
Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my
helpers in Christ Jesus,
who risked their own necks for
my life, to whom not only I give
thanks, but also all the churches
of the Gentiles.
Likewise greet the church that is
in their house. Greet my beloved
Epaenetus, who is the fi rstfruits
of Achaia to Christ.
Greet Mary, who labored
much for us.
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my
countrymen and my fellow prisoners,
who are of note among the
apostles, who also were in Christ
before me.
Greet Amplias, my beloved in
the Lord.
Greet Urbanus, our helper in
Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
Greet Apelles, approved in
Christ. Greet those who are of the
household of Aristobulus.
Greet Herodion, my countryman.
Greet those who are of the household
of Narcissus who are in the Lord.
Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa,
who labor in the Lord. Greet the
beloved Persis, who labored much
in the Lord.
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Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord,
and his mother and mine.
Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon,
Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and
the brethren who are with them.
Greet Philologus and Julia,
Nereus and his sister, and
Olympas, and all the saints who
are with them.
Greet one another with a
holy kiss. The churches of Christ
greet you.
Now I urge you, brethren, note
those who cause divisions and
off enses, contrary to the doctrine
which you learned, and avoid them.
Because, those who are such do
not serve our Lord Jesus Christ,
but their own belly, and by smooth
words and fl attering speech
deceive the hearts of the simple.
Because, your obedience has
become known to everyone.
Therefore I am glad on your
behalf; but I want you to be wise
in what is good, and simple concerning
evil.
And the God of peace will crush
Satan under your feet shortly. The
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
with you. Amen.
Timothy, my fellow worker, and
Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my
countrymen, greet you.
I, Tertius, who wrote this letter,
greet you in the Lord.
Gaius, my host and the host of
the entire church, greets you.
Erastus, the treasurer of the city,
greets you, and Quartus, a brother.
The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you all. Amen.
Now to Him who is mighty to
establish you according to my
gospel and the preaching of Jesus
Christ, according to the revelation
of the mystery kept secret
since the ages began
but is now made manifest, and
by the scriptures of the prophets,
made known to all nations,
according to the commandment
of the everlasting God, for obedience
to the faith,
to God, alone wise, be glory
through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
(Written to the Romans from Corinth, and sent by Phoebe,
the servant of the church at Cenchrea.)
THE FIRST LETTER OF PA UL THE APOSTLE TO THE
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Paul, called to be an apostle of
Jesus Christ through the will of
God, and Sosthenes our brother,
To the church of God which is at
Corinth, to those who are sanctifi
ed in Christ Jesus, called to
be saints, with all who in every
place call on the name of Jesus
Christ our Lord, both theirs and
ours:
Grace be to you and peace from
God our Father and from the Lord
Jesus Christ.
I thank my God always concerning
you for the grace of God which
was given to you by Jesus Christ,
that you are enriched in everything
by Him in all utterance and
in all knowledge,
even as the testimony of Christ
was confi rmed in you,
so that you come short in no
gift, waiting for the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ,
who will also confi rm you to the
end, that you may be blameless in
the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is faithful, by whom you
were called into the fellowship of
His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Now I plead with you, brethren,
by the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that you all speak
the same thing, and that there be
no divisions among you, but that
you be perfectly joined together
in the same mind and in the same
judgment.
Because, it has been declared to
me concerning you, my brethren,
by those of Chloe’s household, that
there are contentions among you.
Now I say this, that each of you
says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of
Apollos,” or “I am of Cephas,” or
“I am of Christ.”
Is Christ divided? Was Paul
crucifi ed for you? Or were you
baptized in the name of Paul?
I thank God that I baptized none
of you except Crispus and Gaius,
lest anyone should say that I
had baptized in my own name.
And, I also baptized the household
of Stephanas. Besides, I do
not know whether I baptized any
other.
Because, Christ did not send
me to baptize, but to preach the
gospel, not with wisdom of words,
lest the cross of Christ should be
made of no eff ect.
Because, the preaching of the
cross is foolishness to those who
perish, but to us who are saved it
is the power of God.
Because it is written: “I will
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destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and bring to nothing the understanding
of the prudent.”
Where is the wise? Where is the
scribe? Where is the disputer of
this age? Has not God made foolish
the wisdom of this world?
Because since, in the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom
did not know God, it pleased
God through the foolishness of
preaching to save those who
believe.
Because, Jews request a sign,
and Greeks seek after wisdom;
but we preach Christ crucifi ed,
to the Jews a stumbling block and
to the Greeks foolishness,
but to those who are called, both
Jews and Greeks, Christ the power
of God and the wisdom of God.
Because, the foolishness of God
is wiser than men, and the weakness
of God is stronger than men.
Because, you see your calling,
brethren, that not many wise
according to the fl esh, not many
mighty, not many noble, are called.
But God has chosen the foolish
things of the world to put to
shame the wise, and God has chosen
the weak things of the world
to put to shame the things which
are mighty;
and the base things of the
world and the things which are
despised God has chosen, yes and
the things which are not, to bring
to nothing the things that are,
that no fl esh should glory in
His presence.
But of Him you are in Christ
Jesus, who, from God, became for
us wisdom and righteousness and
sanctifi cation and redemption,
that, according to as it is written,
“He who glories, let him glory
in the Lord.”
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And I, brethren, when I came to
you, did not come with excellence
of speech or of wisdom declaring
to you the testimony of God.
Because, I determined not to
know anything among you except
Jesus Christ and Him crucifi ed.
And I was with you in weakness,
in fear, and in much trembling.
And my speech and my preaching
was not with persuasive
words of human wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and
of power,
that your faith should not stand
in the wisdom of men but in the
power of God.
However, we speak wisdom
among those who are perfect, yet
not the wisdom of this age, nor of
the rulers of this age, who come
to nothing.
But we speak the wisdom
of God in a mystery, even the
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hidden wisdom which God ordained
before the ages for our glory,
which none of the rulers of
this age knew; because, had they
known it, they would not have
crucifi ed the Lord of glory.
But as it is written: “Eye has
not seen, nor ear heard, nor have
entered into the heart of man the
things which God has prepared
for those who love Him.”
But God has revealed them to us
by His Spirit. Because, the Spirit
searches all things, yes, the deep
things of God.
Because, what man knows the
things of a man except the spirit
of the man which is in him? Even
so no one knows the things of God
except the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the
spirit of the world, but the Spirit
who is from God, that we might
know the things that have been
freely given to us from God.
These things we also speak, not
in words which man’s wisdom
teaches but which the Holy Spirit
teaches, comparing spiritual
things with spiritual.
But the natural man does not
receive the things of the Spirit of
God, because they are foolishness
to him; nor can he know them,
because they are spiritually
discerned.
But he who is spiritual judges
all things, yet he himself is judged
by no one.
Because, “who has known the
mind of the Lord that he may
instruct Him?” But we have the
mind of Christ.
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And I, brethren, could not speak
to you as to spiritual people but as
to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.
I have fed you with milk and
not with solid food; because
until now you were not able to
receive it, and even now you are
still not able;
because you are still carnal.
Because where there is envy, strife,
and divisions among you, are you
not carnal and walk like men?
Because when one says, “I am
of Paul,” and another, “I am of
Apollos,” are you not carnal?
Who then is Paul, and who is
Apollos, but ministers by whom
you believed, as the Lord gave to
each person?
I have planted, Apollos watered,
but God gave the increase.
So then neither he who plants is
anything, nor he who waters, but
God who gives the increase.
Now he who plants and he who
waters are one, and each one will
receive his own reward according
to his own labor.
Because, we are God’s coworkers;
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you are God’s fi eld, you are God’s
building.
According to the grace of God
which was given to me, as a wise
master builder I have laid the
foundation, and another builds
on it. But let each one take heed
how he builds on it.
Because no other foundation
can anyone lay than that which is
laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if anyone builds on this
foundation with gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, straw,
each one’s work will be revealed;
because the Day will declare it,
because it will be revealed by fi re;
and the fi re will test each one’s
work, of what sort it is.
If anyone’s work which he has
built on it endures, he will receive
a reward.
If anyone’s work is burned, he
will suff er loss; but he himself will
be saved, yet so as through fi re.
Do you not know that you are
the temple of God and that the
Spirit of God dwells in you?
If anyone defi les the temple
of God, God will destroy him.
Because the temple of God is holy,
which temple you are.
Let no one deceive himself. If
anyone among you seems to be
wise in this age, let him become a
fool that he may be wise.
Because the wisdom of this
world is foolishness with God.
Because it is written, “He traps
the wise in their own craftiness”;
and again, “The LORD knows
the thoughts of the wise, that
they are vain.”
Therefore let no one boast in
men. Because all things are yours:
whether Paul or Apollos or
Cephas, or the world or life or
death, or things present or things
to come; all are yours.
And you are Christ’s, and
Christ is God’s.
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Let a man so consider us, as servants
of Christ and stewards of
the mysteries of God.
Moreover it is required in stewards
that one be found faithful.
But with me it is a very small
thing that I should be judged by
you or by a man’s judgment. In
fact, I do not even judge myself.
Because, I know of nothing
against myself, yet I am not justifi
ed by this; but He who judges me
is the Lord.
Therefore judge nothing before
the time, until the Lord comes,
who will both bring to light the
hidden things of darkness and
reveal the counsels of the hearts.
And then each one’s praise will
come from God.
Now these things, brethren, I
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have fi guratively transferred to
myself and Apollos for your sakes,
that you may learn in us not to
think about people beyond what is
written, that none of you may be
puff ed up on behalf of one against
the other.
Because who makes you differ
from another? And what do you
have that you did not receive?
Now if you did indeed receive it,
why do you boast as if you had not
received it?
You are already full! You are
already rich! You have reigned
as kings without us; and indeed I
could wish you did reign, that we
also might reign with you!
Because, I think that God has
displayed us, the apostles, last,
as men condemned to death;
because we have been made a
spectacle to the world, to angels
and to men.
We are fools for Christ’s sake,
but you are wise in Christ!
We are weak, but you are strong!
You are honorable, but we are
despised!
Even to the present hour we
both hunger and thirst, and we
are unclothed, and beaten, and
have no permanent home.
And we labor, working with our
own hands. Being reviled, we bless;
being persecuted, we endure;
being defamed, we entreat. We
have been made as the scum of
the earth, and are the off scouring
of all things to this day.
I do not write these things to
shame you, but as my beloved
sons I warn you.
Because, though you might
have ten thousand instructors
in Christ, yet you do
not have many fathers; because
in Christ Jesus I have begotten
you through the gospel.
Therefore I urge you all, be followers
of me.
For this reason I have sent
Timothy to you, who is my beloved
and faithful son in the Lord, who
will remind you of my ways which
are in Christ, as I teach everywhere
in every church.
Now some are puff ed up, as
though I were not coming to you.
But I will come to you shortly,
if the Lord wills, and I will know,
not the speech of those who are
puff ed up, but the power.
Because the kingdom of God is
not in word but in power.
What do you want? Shall I come
to you with a rod, or in love and in
the spirit of meekness?
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It is commonly reported that
there is sexual immorality among
you, and such sexual immorality
as is not even named among
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the Gentiles, that a man has his
father’s wife!
And you are puff ed up, and have
not rather mourned, that he who
has done this deed might be taken
away from among you.
Because, I indeed, as absent in
body but present in spirit, have
already judged (as though I were
present) concerning him who has
so done this deed,
in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, when you are gathered
together, along with my spirit, with
the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
to deliver such a one to Satan for
the destruction of the fl esh, that
his spirit may be saved in the day
of the Lord Jesus.
Your glorying is not good. Do
you not know that a little leaven
leavens the entire lump?
Therefore purge out the old
leaven, that you may be a new
lump, since you truly are unleavened.
Because, even Christ, our
Passover, was sacrifi ced for us.
Therefore let us keep the feast,
not with old leaven, nor with the
leaven of malice and wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.
I wrote to you in a letter not
to keep company with sexually
immoral people.
Yet I certainly did not mean
with the sexually immoral people
of this world, or with the covetous,
or extortioners, or idolaters,
since then you would need to go
out of the world.
But now I have written to you
not to keep company with anyone
that is named a brother, who
is sexually immoral, or covetous,
or an idolater, or a reviler, or a
drunkard, or an extortioner; not
even to eat with such a person.
Because, what have I to do with
judging those also who are outside?
Do you not judge those who
are inside?
But those who are outside God
judges. Therefore “put away from
yourselves that evil person.”
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Dare any of you, having a matter
against another, go to law before
the unrighteous, and not before
the saints?
Do you not know that the saints
will judge the world? And if the
world will be judged by you, are
you unworthy to judge the smallest
matters?
Do you not know that we will
judge angels? How much more,
things that pertain to this life?
If then you have judgments concerning
things pertaining to this
life, appoint those who are least
esteemed in the church to judge!
I say this to your shame. Is it
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so, that there is not a wise man
among you, not even one, who
will be able to judge between his
brethren?
But brother goes to law against
brother, and that before the
unbelievers!
Now therefore, it is already an
utter failure for you, because you
go to law against one another.
Why do you not rather accept
wrong? Why do you not rather
allow yourselves be defrauded?
No, you do wrong and defraud,
and that to your brethren!
Do you not know that the
unrighteous will not inherit
the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived. Neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
eff eminate, nor abusers of themselves
with mankind,
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners will inherit the
kingdom of God.
And such were some of you. But
you are washed, but you are sanctifi
ed, but you are justifi ed in the
name of the Lord Jesus and by the
Spirit of our God.
All things are lawful for me,
but all things are not helpful. All
things are lawful for me, but I will
not be brought under the authority
of any.
Foods for the stomach and the
stomach for foods, but God will
destroy both it and them. Now
the body is not for sexual immorality
but for the Lord, and the
Lord for the body.
And God has both raised up the
Lord and will also raise us up by
His own power.
Do you not know that your bodies
are members of Christ? Shall I
then take the members of Christ
and make them the members of a
harlot? God forbid!
Or do you not know that he who
is joined to a harlot is one body
with her? Because “the two,” He
says, “will be one fl esh.”
But he who is joined to the Lord
is one spirit with Him.
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin
that a man does is outside the body,
but he who commits sexual immorality
sins against his own body.
Or do you not know that your
body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit who is in you, whom you
have from God, and you are not
your own?
Because, you were bought at
a price; therefore glorify God
in your body and in your spirit,
which are God’s.
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Now concerning the things of
which you wrote to me: It is good
for a man not to touch a woman.
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Nevertheless, to avoid sexual
immorality, let each man have
his own wife, and let each woman
have her own husband.
Let the husband render to his
wife the aff ection due her, and
likewise also the wife to her
husband.
The wife does not have authority
over her own body, but the husband
does. And likewise the husband
does not have authority over his
own body, but the wife does.
Do not deprive one another
except it be with consent for a
time, that you may give yourselves
to fasting and prayer;
and come together again so that
Satan does not tempt you because
of your lack of self control.
But I say this by permission, and
not as a commandment.
Because I wish that all men were
even as I myself. But each one has
his own gift from God, one in this
manner and another in that.
Therefore, I say to the unmarried
and to the widows: It is good for
them if they remain even as I am;
but if they cannot exercise self
control, let them marry. Because
it is better to marry than to burn
with passion.
Now to the married I command,
yet not I but the Lord: A
wife is not to depart from her
husband.
But even if she does depart, let
her remain unmarried or be reconciled
to her husband. And do
not let a husband divorce his wife.
But to the rest I, not the Lord,
say: If any brother has a wife who
does not believe, and she is willing
to live with him, let him not
divorce her.
And a woman who has a husband
who does not believe, if he is
willing to live with her, let her not
divorce him.
Because, the unbelieving husband
is sanctifi ed by the wife, and
the unbelieving wife is sanctifi ed
by the husband; otherwise your
children would be unclean, but
now they are holy.
But if the unbeliever departs, let
him depart; a brother or a sister is
not under bondage in such cases.
But God has called us to peace.
Because, how do you know, O
wife, whether you will save your
husband? Or how do you know, O
husband, whether you will save
your wife?
But as God has distributed to
each one, as the Lord has called
each one, so let him walk. And so
I ordain in all the churches.
Was anyone called while circumcised?
Let him not become
uncircumcised. Was anyone
called while uncircumcised? Let
him not be circumcised.
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Circumcision is nothing and
uncircumcision is nothing, but
keeping the commandments of
God.
Let each one remain in the same
calling in which he was called.
Were you called while a servant?
Do not be concerned about it; but
if you can be made free, rather
use it.
Because he who is called in
the Lord while a servant is the
Lord’s freedman. Likewise he
who is called while free is Christ’s
servant.
You were bought with a price;
do not become servants of men.
Brethren, let each one remain
with God in that state in which he
was called.
Now concerning virgins: I have
no commandment from the Lord;
yet I give my judgment as one
who has received mercy from the
Lord to be faithful.
I suppose therefore that this
is good because of the present
distress, I say that it is good for a
man to remain as he is:
Are you bound to a wife? Do not
seek to be loosed. Are you loosed
from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
But even if you do marry, you
have not sinned; and if a virgin
marries, she has not sinned.
Nevertheless such will have
trouble in the fl esh, but I would
spare you that.
But this I say, brethren, the time
is short, so that from now on even
those who have wives should be
as though they had none,
those who weep as though they
did not weep, those who rejoice as
though they did not rejoice, those
who buy as though they did not
possess,
and those who use this world as
not misusing it. Because the form
of this world is passing away.
But I want you to be without
worry. He who is unmarried cares
for the things that pertain to the
Lord, how he may please the Lord.
But he who is married cares
about the things that are of the
world, how he may please his wife.
There is also a diff erence
between a wife and a virgin. The
unmarried woman cares about
the things of the Lord, that she
may be holy both in body and
in spirit. But she who is married
cares about the things of the
world, how she may please her
husband.
And this I say for your own
profi t, not that I may put a snare
on you, but for what is proper,
and that you may serve the Lord
without distraction.
But if any man thinks he is
behaving improperly toward his
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virgin, if she is past the fl ower of
her age, and thus it must be, let
him do what he wishes. He does
not sin; let them marry.
Nevertheless he who stands
steadfast in his heart, having no
necessity, but has power over his
own will, and has so determined
in his heart that he will keep his
virgin, does well.
So then he who gives her in marriage
does well, but he who does not
give her in marriage does better.
A wife is bound by law as long
as her husband lives; but if her
husband dies, she is at liberty to
be married to whom she wills,
only in the Lord.
But she is happier if she remains
as she is, according to my judgment;
and I think also that I have
the Spirit of God.
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Now concerning things off ered
to idols: We know that we all have
knowledge. Knowledge puff s up,
but love edifi es.
And if anyone thinks that he
knows anything, he knows nothing
yet as he ought to know.
But if anyone loves God, this one
is known of Him.
Therefore concerning the eating
of things that are off ered in
sacrifi ce to idols, we know that an
idol is nothing in the world, and
that there is no other God but one.
Because, even if there are so
called gods, whether in heaven or
on earth (as there are many gods
and many lords),
yet for us there is only one God,
the Father, of whom are all things,
and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom are all things,
even ourselves by Him.
However, not everyone possesses
that knowledge; but some,
with consciousness of the idol,
until now eat it as a thing off ered
to an idol; and their conscience,
being weak, is defi led.
But food does not commend us
to God; because neither if we eat
are we better off , nor if we do not
eat are we worse off .
But beware lest somehow this
liberty of yours becomes a stumbling
block to those who are weak.
Because, if anyone sees you
who have knowledge eating in an
idol’s temple, shall not the conscience
of him who is weak be
emboldened to eat those things
off ered to idols?
And because of your knowledge
shall the weak brother perish, for
whom Christ died?
But when you all sin like this
against the brethren, and wound
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their weak conscience, you all sin
against Christ.
Therefore, if food makes my
brother stumble, I will never eat
meat while the world stands, lest
I make my brother stumble.
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Am I not an apostle? Am I not
free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ
our Lord? Are you not my work in
the Lord?
If I am not an apostle to others,
yet doubtless I am to you.
Because, you are the seal of my
apostleship in the Lord.
My defense to those who examine
me is this:
Do we have no right to eat
and drink?
Do we have no right to take
along a sister, a wife, as do also
the other apostles, the brethren
of the Lord, and Cephas?
Or is it only Barnabas and I who
have no right to refrain from
working?
Who ever goes to war at his own
expense? Who plants a vineyard
and does not eat of its fruit? Or
who tends a fl ock and does not
drink of the milk of the fl ock?
Do I say these things as a mere
man? Or does not the law say the
same also?
Because, it is written in the law
of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an
ox while it treads out the grain.”
Is it oxen God is concerned about?
Or does He say it entirely for
our sakes? No doubt, this is written
for our sakes, that he who
plows should plow in hope, and
he who threshes in hope should
be partaker of his hope.
If we have sown spiritual things
for you, is it a great thing if we
reap your material things?
If others are partakers of this
authority over you, are we not
even more? Nevertheless we
have not used this authority, but
endure all things lest we hinder
the gospel of Christ.
Do you not know that those
who minister the holy things eat
of the things of the temple, and
those who serve at the altar partake
of the altar?
Even so the Lord has ordained
that those who preach the gospel
should live from the gospel.
But I have used none of these
things, nor have I written these
things that it should be done so
to me; because it would be better
for me to die than that anyone
should make my boasting empty.
Because, though I preach the
gospel, I have nothing to boast
about, because necessity is laid
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upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not
preach the gospel!
Because, if I do this thing
willingly, I have a reward; but
if against my will, I have been
entrusted with a stewardship of
the gospel.
What is my reward then? Truly,
that when I preach the gospel, I
may present the gospel of Christ
free of charge, that I may not
abuse my authority in the gospel.
Because, though I am free
from all men, I have made myself
a servant to all, that I might win
the more;
and to the Jews I became as
a Jew, that I might win Jews; to
those who are under the law, as
under the law, that I might win
those who are under the law;
to those who are without law,
as without law (not being without
law toward God, but under the
law toward Christ), that I might
win those who are without law;
to the weak I became as weak,
that I might win the weak. I have
become all things to all men, that
I might by all means save some.
Now this I do for the gospel’s
sake, that I may be partaker of it
with you.
Do you not know that those
who run in a race all run, but one
receives the prize? Run in such a
way that you may obtain it.
And everyone who strives for
dominance has self control in all
things. Now they do it to obtain a
perishable crown, but we for the
imperishable.
Therefore I do not run with
uncertainty. So I do not fi ght as
one who beats the air.
But I discipline my body and
bring it into subjection, lest in
any way when I have preached to
others, I myself should become an
outcast.
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Moreover, brethren, I do not
want you to be ignorant that all
our fathers were under the cloud,
all passed through the sea,
all were baptized under Moses
in the cloud and in the sea,
all ate the same spiritual food,
and all drank the same spiritual
drink. Because, they drank of
that spiritual Rock that followed
them, and that Rock was Christ.
But with most of them God was
not well pleased, because they were
overthrown in the wilderness.
Now these things became our
examples, to the intent that we
should not lust after evil things
as they also lusted.
And do not become idolaters
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as were some of them. As it is written,
“The people sat down to eat
and drink, and rose up to play.”
Nor let us commit sexual
immorality, as some of them committed,
and in one day twenty
three thousand fell;
nor let us tempt Christ, as some
of them also tempted, and were
destroyed by serpents;
nor complain, as some of
them also complained, and were
destroyed by the destroyer.
Now all these things happened
to them as examples, and they
were written for our admonition,
upon whom the ends of the ages
have come.
Therefore let him who thinks
he stands take heed lest he fall.
There is no temptation that has
come upon you except such as is
common to everyone; but God is
faithful, who will not allow you to
be tempted beyond what you are
able, but with the temptation will
also make the way of escape, that
you may be able to endure it.
Therefore, my beloved, fl ee
from idolatry.
I speak as to wise men; judge
for yourselves what I say.
The cup of blessing which we
bless, is it not the communion of
the blood of Christ? The bread
which we break, is it not the communion
of the body of Christ?
Because we, though many, are
one bread and one body; because
we all partake of that one bread.
Observe Israel according to the
fl esh: Are not those who eat of the
sacrifi ces partakers of the altar?
What am I saying then? That an
idol is anything, or what is off ered
in sacrifi ce to idols is anything?
Rather, I am saying that the things
which the Gentiles sacrifi ce they
sacrifi ce to demons and not to God,
and I do not want that you would
have fellowship with demons.
You cannot drink the cup of the
Lord and the cup of demons; you
cannot partake of the Lord’s table
and of the table of demons.
Or do we provoke the Lord to
jealousy? Are we stronger than
He?
All things are lawful for me,
but not all things are helpful; all
things are lawful for me, but not
all things edify.
Let no one seek his own, but
each one the other’s well being.
Eat whatever is sold in the meat
market, asking no questions for
conscience’ sake;
because “the earth is the
LORD’S, and all its fullness.”
If any of those who do not
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believe invites you to a meal, and
you desire to go, eat whatever is
set before you, asking no question
for conscience’ sake.
But if anyone says to you, “This
was off ered to idols,” do not eat it
for the sake of the one who told
you, and for conscience’ sake;
because “the earth is the LORD’S,
and all its fullness.”
I do not say your own
conscience, but that of the
others. Because why is my liberty
judged by another man’s
conscience?
But if I partake with thanks,
why am I evil spoken of for that
over which I give thanks?
Therefore, whether you eat or
drink, or whatever you do, do all
to the glory of God.
Give no off ense, either to the
Jews or to the Gentiles or to the
church of God,
just as I also please all men in all
things, not seeking my own profi t,
but the profi t of many, that they
may be saved.
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Be followers of me, just as I also
am of Christ.
Now I praise you, brethren, that
you remember me in all things
and keep the traditions just as I
delivered them to you.
But I want you to know that the
head of every man is Christ, the
head of the woman is man, and
the head of Christ is God.
Every man praying or prophesying,
having his head covered,
dishonors his head.
But every woman who prays or
prophesies with her head uncovered
dishonors her head, because,
that is one and the same as if her
head were shaved.
Because, if a woman is not covered,
let her also be shorn. But
if it is shameful for a woman to
be shorn or shaved, let her be
covered.
Because, a man indeed ought
not to cover his head, since he is
the image and glory of God; but
woman is the glory of man.
Because, the man is not from
the woman, but the woman from
the man.
Nor was man created for the
woman, but woman for the man.
For this reason the woman ought
to have a symbol of authority on
her head, because of the angels.
Nevertheless, neither is man
independent of woman, nor
woman independent of man, in
the Lord.
Because, as woman came from
man, even so man also comes
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through woman; but all things
are from God.
Judge among yourselves. Is it
proper for a woman to pray to
God uncovered?
Does not even nature itself
teach you that if a man has long
hair, it is a dishonor to him?
But if a woman has long hair, it
is a glory to her; because her hair
is given to her for a covering.
But if anyone seems to be contentious,
we have no such custom,
nor do the churches of God.
Now in giving these instructions
to you I do not praise you,
since you come together not for
the better but for the worse.
Because, fi rst of all, when you
come together in the church,
I hear that there are divisions
among you, and in part I believe it.
Because, there must also be
heresies among you, that those
who are approved may be identifi
ed among you.
Therefore when you come
together into one place, this is not
to eat the Lord’s Supper.
Because, in eating, each one
takes his own supper ahead of
others; and one is hungry and
another drinks to the full.
What! Do you not have houses to
eat and drink in? Or do you despise
the church of God and shame
those who have nothing? What
shall I say to you? Shall I praise you
in this? I do not praise you.
Because, I received from the
Lord that which I also delivered
to you: that the Lord Jesus on
the same night in which He was
betrayed took bread;
and when He had given thanks,
He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this
is My body which is broken for you;
do this in remembrance of Me.”
In the same manner He also
took the cup after supper, saying,
“This cup is the new testament in
My blood. This do, each time you
drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
Because, every time you eat
this bread and drink this cup, you
proclaim the Lord’s death until
He comes.
Therefore whoever eats this
bread or drinks this cup of the
Lord in an unworthy manner will
be guilty of the body and blood of
the Lord.
But let a man examine himself,
and so let him eat of the bread and
drink of the cup.
Because, he who eats and drinks
in an unworthy manner eats and
drinks damnation to himself, not
discerning the Lord’s body.
For this reason many are
weak and sick among you, and
many sleep.
Because if we would judge
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ourselves, we would not be
judged.
But when we are judged, we are
chastened by the Lord, that we may
not be condemned with the world.
Therefore, my brethren, when
you come together to eat, wait for
one another.
But if anyone is hungry, let him
eat at home, lest you come together
for condemnation. And the rest I
will set in order when I come.
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Now concerning spiritual gifts,
brethren, I do not want you to be
ignorant:
You know that you were Gentiles,
carried away to these mute idols,
however you were led.
Therefore I make known to you
that no one speaking by the Spirit
of God calls Jesus accursed, and
that no one can say that Jesus is
the Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
Now there are diversities of
gifts, but the same Spirit.
And there are diff erences of
ministries, but the same Lord.
And there are diversities of
activities, but it is the same
God who empowers them all in
everyone.
But the manifestation of the
Spirit is given to each one for
everyone’s benefi t.
Because, to one is given the
word of wisdom by the Spirit, to
another the word of knowledge
by the same Spirit,
to another faith by the same
Spirit, to another gifts of healing
by the same Spirit,
to another the working of miracles,
to another prophecy, to
another discerning of spirits, to
another diff erent kinds of tongues,
to another the interpretation of
tongues.
But these are empowered by one
and the same Spirit, distributing to
each one individually as He wills.
Because, as the body is one
and has many members, but all
the members of that one body,
being many, are one body, so
also is Christ.
Because, by one Spirit we
were all baptized into one body,
whether we are Jews or Greeks,
whether we are slaves or free, and
have all been made to drink into
one Spirit.
Because the body is not one
member but many.
If the foot should say, “Because
I am not a hand, I am not of the
body,” is it therefore not of the
body?
And if the ear should say,
“Because I am not an eye, I am not
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of the body,” is it therefore not of
the body?
If the whole body were an eye,
where would be the hearing? If the
whole were hearing, where would
be the smelling?
But now God has arranged the
members, each one of them, in
the body just as He pleased.
And if they were all one member,
where would the body be?
But now indeed there are many
members, yet one body.
And the eye cannot say to the
hand, “I have no need of you”; nor
again the head to the feet, “I have
no need of you.”
No, on the contrary, those
members of the body which seem
to be weaker are necessary.
And those members of the
body which we think to be less
honorable, on these we bestow
more abundant honor; and our
unpresentable parts have more
abundant modesty,
but our presentable parts have
no lack. But God assembled
together the body, having given
more abundant honor to that part
which lacked,
that there should be no division
in the body, but that the members
should have the same care for one
another.
And if one member suff ers, all
the members suff er with it; or if
one member is honored, all the
members rejoice with it.
Now you are the body of Christ,
and members individually.
And God has arranged these
in the church: fi rst apostles, second
prophets, third teachers,
after that miracles, then gifts of
healings, helps, administrations,
varieties of tongues.
Are all apostles? Are all prophets?
Are all teachers? Are all
workers of miracles?
Do all have gifts of healing? Do
all speak with tongues? Do all
interpret?
But earnestly desire the best
gifts. And yet I show you a more
excellent way.
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Though I speak with the tongues
of men and of angels, but do not
have love, I have become as sounding
brass or a clanging cymbal.
And though I have the gift of
prophecy, and understand all
mysteries and all knowledge, and
though I have all faith, so that I
could remove mountains, but do
not have love, I am nothing.
And though I give all my goods
to feed the poor, and though I give
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my body to be burned, but have
not love, it profi ts me nothing.
Love suff ers long and is kind;
love does not envy; love does not
parade itself, is not puff ed up;
does not behave rudely, does
not seek its own, is not easily provoked,
thinks no evil;
does not rejoice in iniquity, but
rejoices in the truth;
bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures
all things.
Love never fails. But if there
are prophecies, they will fail; if
there are tongues, they will cease;
if there is knowledge, it will vanish
away.
Because, we know in part and
we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect
has come, then that which is in
part will be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as
a child, I understood as a child,
I thought as a child; but when I
became a man, I put away childish
things.
Because, now we see in a mirror,
dimly, but then face to face.
Now I know in part, but then I
will know just as I also am known.
So now faith, hope, and love,
abide, these three; but the greatest
of these is love.
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Pursue love, and desire spiritual
gifts, but especially that you may
prophesy.
Because, he who speaks in an
unknown tongue does not speak to
men but to God, because no one
understands him; however, in the
spirit he speaks mysteries.
But he who prophesies speaks
edifi cation and exhortation and
comfort to men.
He who speaks in an
unknown tongue edifi es himself,
but he who prophesies edifi es the
church.
I wish you all spoke with tongues,
but even more that you prophesied;
because, he who prophesies
is greater than he who speaks
with tongues, unless he interprets,
that the church may receive
edifi cation.
Now, brethren, if I come to you
speaking with tongues, what
shall I profi t you unless I speak
to you either by revelation, by
knowledge, by prophesying, or by
doctrine?
Even things without life,
whether fl ute or harp, when they
make a sound, unless they make
a distinction in the notes, how
will it be known what is piped or
played?
Because, if the trumpet makes
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an uncertain sound, who will
prepare themselves for battle?
So likewise you, unless you
utter by the tongue words easy to
understand, how will it be known
what is spoken? Because you will
be speaking into the air.
There are, it may be, so many
kinds of languages in the world,
and none of them is without
signifi cance.
Therefore, if I do not know the
meaning of the language, I will
be a foreigner to him who speaks,
and he who speaks will be a foreigner
to me.
Even so you, since you are zealous
for spiritual gifts, seek that
you may excel for the edifi cation
of the church.
Therefore let him who speaks
in an unknown tongue pray that
he may interpret.
Because, if I pray in an
unknown tongue, my spirit
prays, but my understanding is
unfruitful.
What is the conclusion then? I
will pray with the spirit, and I will
also pray with the understanding.
I will sing with the spirit, and I will
also sing with the understanding.
Otherwise, if you bless with the
spirit, how will he who occupies
the place of the uninformed say
“Amen” at your giving of thanks,
since he does not understand
what you say?
Because, you indeed give
thanks well, but the other is not
edifi ed.
I thank my God I speak with
tongues more than you all;
yet in the church I would rather
speak fi ve words with my understanding,
that by my voice I may
teach others also, than ten thousand
words in an unknown tongue.
Brethren, do not be children
in understanding; however, in
malice be children, but in understanding
be mature.
In the law it is written:
“With people of other tongues and
other lips I will speak to this people;
and yet, for all that, they will
not hear Me,” says the Lord.
Therefore tongues are for a
sign, not to those who believe
but to unbelievers; but prophesying
is not for unbelievers but
serves for those who believe.
Therefore if the entire church
comes together in one place, and
all speak with tongues, and there
come in those who are uninformed
or unbelievers, will they not say
that you are crazy?
But if all prophesy, and an
unbeliever or an uninformed
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person comes in, he is convinced
by all, he is convicted by all.
And so the secrets of his heart
are revealed; and so, falling down
on his face, he will worship God
and report that God is truly
among you.
How is it then, brethren?
Whenever you come together,
each of you has a psalm, has a
doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation,
has an interpretation. Let
all things be done for edifi cation.
If anyone speaks in an
unknown tongue, let there be two
or at the most three, each in turn,
and let one interpret.
But if there is no interpreter, let
him keep silent in church, and let
him speak to himself and to God.
Let two or three prophets
speak, and let the others judge.
But if anything is revealed to
another who sits by, let the fi rst
keep silent.
Because, you can all prophesy
one by one, that all may learn and
all may be encouraged.
And the spirits of the prophets
are subject to the prophets.
Because, God is not the author of
confusion but of peace, as in all
the churches of the saints.
Let your women keep silent in
the churches, because they are
not permitted to speak; but they
are commanded to be submissive,
as the law also says.
And if they want to learn
something, let them ask their
husbands at home; because it is
shameful for women to speak in
the church.
What? Did the word of God originate
from you? Or was it to you
only that it has come?
If anyone thinks himself to be
a prophet or spiritual, let him
acknowledge that the things
which I write to you are the commandments
of the Lord.
But if anyone is ignorant, let
him be ignorant.
Therefore, brethren, desire
earnestly to prophesy, and do not
forbid to speak with tongues.
Let all things be done decently
and in order.
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Moreover, brethren, I declare to
you the gospel which I preached
to you, which
also you received and in which
you stand,
by which also you are saved, if
you keep in memory that which I
preached to you, unless you have
believed in vain.
Because, I delivered to you fi rst
of all that which I also received:
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how Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,
and that He was buried, and
that He rose again the third day
according to the Scriptures,
and that He was seen by Cephas,
then by the twelve.
After that He was seen by over fi ve
hundred brethren at once, of whom
the greater part remain to the present,
but some have fallen asleep.
After that He was seen by James,
then by all the apostles.
Then last of all He was seen by me
also, as by one born out of due time.
Because, I am the least of the
apostles, who am not worthy to
be called an apostle, because I
persecuted the church of God.
But by the grace of God I am
what I am, and His grace which
was imparted to me was not in vain;
but I labored more abundantly
than they all, yet not I, but the
grace of God which was with me.
Therefore, whether it was I or
they, so we preach and so you
believed.
Now if Christ is preached that
He rose from the dead, how do
some among you say that there is
no resurrection of the dead?
But if there is no resurrection of
the dead, then Christ is not risen.
And if Christ is not risen, then
our preaching is in vain and your
faith is also in vain.
Yes, and we are found to be false
witnesses of God, because we have
testifi ed of God that He raised up
Christ, whom He did not raise up,
if in fact the dead do not rise.
Because, if the dead do not rise,
then Christ is not risen.
And if Christ is not risen,
your faith is vain; you are still
in your sins!
Then also those who have
fallen asleep in Christ have
perished.
If in this life only we have hope
in Christ, we are of all men the
most to be pitied.
But now Christ is risen from the
dead, and has become the fi rstfruits
of those who sleep.
Because, since by man came
death, by Man also came the resurrection
of the dead.
Because as in Adam all die, even
so in Christ all will be made alive.
But each one in his own order:
Christ the firstfruits, afterward
those who are Christ’s at
His coming.
Then comes the end, when He
will have delivered the kingdom
to God, even the Father, when He
puts down all rule and all authority
and power.
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Because, He must reign until He
has put all enemies under His feet.
The last enemy that will be
destroyed is death.
Because “He has put all things
under His feet.” But when He says
“all things are put under Him,” it is
evident that He who put all things
under Him is the exception.
Now when all things are made
subject to Him, then the Son
Himself will also be subject to
Him who put all things under
Him, that God may be all in all.
Otherwise, what shall they
do who are baptized for the
dead, if the dead do not rise at
all? Why then are they baptized
for the dead?
And why do we stand in danger
every hour?
I affi rm, by the boasting which
I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I
die daily.
If, in the manner of men, I have
fought with beasts at Ephesus,
what advantage is it to me? If the
dead do not rise, “Let us eat and
drink, because tomorrow we die!”
Do not be deceived: “Evil company
corrupts good morals.”
Awake to righteousness, and do
not sin; because some do not have
the knowledge of God. I speak this
to your shame.
But someone will say, “How
are the dead raised up? And with
what body do they come?”
Foolish one, what you sow is not
made alive unless it dies.
And what you sow, you do not
sow that body that will be, but
mere grain, perhaps wheat or
some other grain.
But God gives it a body as it has
pleased Him, and to each seed its
own body.
All fl esh is not the same fl esh,
but there is one kind of fl esh of men,
another fl esh of animals, another
of fi sh, and another of birds.
There are also celestial bodies
and terrestrial bodies; but
the glory of the celestial is one,
and the glory of the terrestrial is
another.
There is one glory of the sun,
another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars;
because one star diff ers from
another star in glory.
So also is the resurrection of the
dead. The body is sown in corruption,
it is raised in incorruption.
It is sown in dishonor, it is
raised in glory. It is sown in weakness,
it is raised in power.
It is sown a natural body, it is
raised a spiritual body. There is a
natural body, and there is a spiritual
body.
And so it is written, “The fi rst
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man Adam became a living soul.”
The last Adam became a life giving
spirit.
However, the spiritual is not
fi rst, but the natural, and afterward
that which is spiritual.
The fi rst man was of the earth,
made of dust; the second Man is
the Lord from heaven.
As was the man of dust, so also
are those who are made of dust;
and as is the heavenly Man, so
also are those who are heavenly.
And as we have borne the image
of the man of dust, we will also
bear the image of the Heavenly
Now this I say, brethren, that
fl esh and blood cannot inherit
the kingdom of God; nor does corruption
inherit incorruption.
Behold, I show you a mystery:
We will not all sleep, but we will
all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trumpet.
Because, the trumpet will
sound, and the dead will be
raised incorruptible, and we will
be changed.
Because, this corruptible must
put on incorruption, and this
mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible has
put on incorruption, and this
mortal has put on immortality,
then will be brought to pass the
saying that is written: “Death is
swallowed up in victory.”
“O Death, where is your sting? O
grave, where is your victory?”
The sting of death is sin, and
the strength of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives
us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren,
be steadfast, immovable,
always abounding in the work of
the Lord, knowing that your labor
is not in vain in the Lord.
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Now concerning the collection
for the saints, as I have directed
the churches of Galatia, so you
must do also:
On the fi rst day of the week
let each one of you lay something
aside, storing up as God has
prospered him, that there be no
collections when I come.
And when I come, whomever you
approve by your letters I will send
to bear your gift to Jerusalem.
But if it is fi tting that I go also,
they will go with me.
Now I will come to you when I
pass through Macedonia (because
I am passing through Macedonia).
And it may be that I will remain,
or even spend the winter with
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you, that you may send me on my
journey, wherever I go.
Because, I do not wish to see you
now along the way; but I hope to
stay a while with you, if the Lord
permits.
But I will stay in Ephesus until
Pentecost.
Because, a great and eff ective
door has opened to me, and there
are many adversaries.
Now if Timothy comes, see that
he may be with you without fear;
because, he does the work of the
Lord, as I also do.
Therefore let no one despise
him. But send him on his journey
in peace, that he may come to me;
because I am expecting him with
the brethren.
Now concerning our brother
Apollos, I strongly urged him to
come to you with the brethren,
but he was quite unwilling to
come at this time; however, he
will come when he has a convenient
time.
Watch, stand fast in the faith,
act like men, be strong.
Let all that you do be done
with love.
I urge you, brethren, you know
the household of Stephanas, that
it is the fi rstfruits of Achaia, and
that they have devoted themselves
to the ministry of the saints,
that you also submit to such,
and to everyone who works and
labors with us.
I am glad about the coming
of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and
Achaicus, because what was lacking
on your part they supplied.
Because they refreshed my
spirit and yours. Therefore
acknowledge such people.
The churches of Asia greet
you. Aquila and Priscilla greet
you heartily in the Lord, with the
church that is in their house.
All the brethren greet you. Greet
one another with a holy kiss.
The salutation from me Paul
with my own hand.
If anyone does not love the Lord
Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema
Maranatha!
The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you.
My love be with you all in Christ
Jesus. Amen.
(The fi rst letter to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas,
Fortunatus, Achaicus, and Timothy.)
THE SECOND LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
by the will of God, and Timothy
our brother, to the church of God
which is at Corinth, with all the
saints who are in all Achaia:
Grace be to you and peace from
God our Father and from the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of mercies and God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our tribulation,
that we may be able to
comfort those who are in any
trouble, with the comfort with
which we ourselves are comforted
by God.
Because, as the suff erings of
Christ abound in us, so our consolation
also abounds by Christ.
Now if we are affl icted, it is for
your consolation and salvation,
which is eff ective for enduring
the same suff erings which we
also suff er. Or if we are comforted,
it is for your consolation
and salvation.
And our hope for you is
unshaken, because, we know that
as you are partakers of the suff erings,
so also you will also be of the
consolation.
Because, we do not want you
to be ignorant, brethren, of our
trouble which came to us in Asia:
that we were burdened beyond
measure, above strength, so that
we despaired even of life.
But we had the sentence of
death in ourselves, that we should
not trust in ourselves but in God
who raises the dead,
who delivered us from so great
a death, and does deliver us; in
whom we trust that He will still
deliver,
you also helping together in
prayer for us, that thanks may
be given by the means of many
people on our behalf for the gift
granted to us through many.
Because our rejoicing is this:
the testimony of our conscience
that we conducted ourselves in
the world in simplicity and godly
sincerity, not with fl eshly wisdom
but by the grace of God, and more
abundantly toward you.
Because, we are not writing
any other things to you than
what you read or acknowledge,
and I trust you will acknowledge,
even to the end
as also you have acknowledged
us partially, that we are your
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rejoicing, just as you also are ours,
in the day of the Lord Jesus.
And in this confi dence I
intended to come to you before,
that you might have a second
benefi t;
to visit you on the way to
Macedonia, to return again from
Macedonia to you, and be brought
on my way toward Judea.
Therefore, when I was planning
this, did I do it lightly? Or the
things I plan, do I plan according
to the fl esh, that with me there
should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?
But as God is true, our word to
you was not Yes and No.
Because, the Son of God, Jesus
Christ, who was preached among
you by us, even by me, Silvanus,
and Timothy, was not Yes and No,
but in Him was Yes.
Because, all the promises of
God in Him are Yes, and in Him
Amen, to the glory of God by us.
Now He who establishes us with
you in Christ and has anointed us
is God,
who also has sealed us and
given us the Spirit in our hearts
as a guarantee.
Moreover I call God to record
against my soul, that to spare you
I have not yet come to Corinth.
Not that we have dominion over
your faith, but are helpers for your
joy; because by faith you stand.
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But I determined this within
myself, that I would not come
again to you in sorrow.
Because, if I make you sorrowful,
then who is he who makes me
glad but the one who is made sorrowful
by me?
And I wrote this very thing to
you, lest, when I came, I should
have sorrow from those of whom
I ought to rejoice, having confi -
dence in you all that my joy is the
joy of you all.
Because, out of much affl iction
and anguish of heart I wrote to
you, with many tears, not that
you should be grieved, but that
you might know the love which I
have so abundantly for you.
But if anyone has caused grief,
he has not grieved me, except
partially; so that I may not be
harsh to you all.
This punishment which was
infl icted by many is suffi cient for
such a man,
so that, on the contrary, you
ought rather to forgive him, and
comfort him, lest perhaps such a
one should be swallowed up with
too much sorrow.
Therefore I urge you to reaffi rm
your love to him.
Because, this is why I also
wrote, that I might put you to the
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test, whether you are obedient in
all things.
To whom you forgive anything,
I also forgive. Because, if I have forgiven
anything, to whom I forgive
it, I have forgiven it for your sakes
in the person of Christ,
lest Satan should get a favorable
position over us; because we
are not ignorant of his devices.
Furthermore, when I came to
Troas to preach Christ’s gospel,
and a door was opened to me by
the Lord,
I had no rest in my spirit, because
I did not fi nd Titus my brother; but
taking my leave of them, I departed
from there into Macedonia.
Now thanks be to God who
always causes us to triumph in
Christ, and makes manifest the
fragrance of His knowledge in
every place through us.
Because, we are to God the
sweet fragrance of Christ among
those who are saved and among
those who are perishing.
To the one we are the aroma of
death leading to death, and to the
other the aroma of life leading
to life. And who is suffi cient for
these things?
Because, we are not, like so
many, who corrupt the word of
God; but as of sincerity, but as
from God, in the sight of God we
speak in Christ.
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Do we begin again to commend
ourselves? Or do we need, as some
others, letters of commendation
to you or letters of commendation
from you?
You are our letter written in
our hearts, known and read by
everyone;
in as much as you are clearly
declared to be a letter of Christ,
delivered by us, written not with
ink but by the Spirit of the living
God, not on tablets of stone but on
tablets of fl esh, that is, of the heart.
And we have such confi dence
through Christ toward God.
Not that we are suffi cient of
ourselves to think of anything
as originating from ourselves, but
our suffi ciency is from God,
who also has made us competent
ministers of the new testament,
not of the letter but of the Spirit;
because the letter kills, but the
Spirit gives life.
But if the ministry of death,
written and engraved on stones,
was glorious, so that the children
of Israel could not look steadfastly
at Moses’ face because of
the glory of his countenance,
which glory was passing away,
how will the ministry of the
Spirit not be more glorious?
Because, if the ministry of
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condemnation is glory, the ministry
of righteousness exceeds
much more in glory.
Because, even what was made
glorious had no glory in this
respect, because of the glory
that excels.
Because, if what is passing
away was glorious, what remains
is much more glorious.
Therefore, seeing we have
such hope, we use much freedom
of speech;
unlike Moses, who put a veil
over his face so that the children
of Israel could not look steadfastly
at the outcome of what was
passing away.
But their minds were blinded.
Because, until this day the same
veil remains unlifted in the reading
of the Old Testament. This veil
is taken away in Christ.
But even to this day, when Moses
is read, a veil is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when it shall
turn to the Lord, the veil will be
taken away.
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and
where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
But we all, with unveiled face,
beholding as in a mirror the glory
of the Lord, are changed into the
same image from glory to glory,
just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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Therefore, seeing we have this
ministry, as we have received
mercy, we do not lose heart.
But we have renounced the
hidden things of dishonesty, not
walking in craftiness nor handling
the word of God deceitfully,
but by the manifestation of the
truth commending ourselves to
every man’s conscience in the
sight of God.
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is
veiled to those who are perishing,
whose minds the god of this age
has blinded, who do not believe,
lest the light of the glorious gospel
of Christ, who is the image of
God, should shine on them.
Because, we do not preach ourselves,
but Christ Jesus the Lord,
and ourselves your servants for
Jesus’ sake.
Because God, who commanded
light to shine out of darkness, has
shone in our hearts to give the
light of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But we have this treasure in
earthen vessels, that the excellence
of the power may be of God
and not of us.
We are troubled on every side,
yet not distressed; we are perplexed,
but not in despair;
persecuted, but not forsaken;
struck down, but not destroyed;
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always carrying about in the
body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life of Jesus also may be
manifested in our body.
Because, we who live are always
delivered to death for Jesus’ sake,
that the life of Jesus also may be
manifested in our mortal fl esh.
So then death is working in us,
but life in you.
We having the same spirit of
faith, according to what is written,
“I believed and therefore I
spoke,” we also believe and therefore
speak,
knowing that He who raised up
the Lord Jesus will also raise us
up by Jesus, and will present us
with you.
Because, all things are for your
sakes, that the abundant grace
may through the thanksgiving of
many, abound to the glory of God.
Therefore we do not lose heart.
Even though our outward man is
perishing, yet the inward man is
being renewed day by day.
Because, our light affl iction,
which is only for a moment, is
working for us a far more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory,
while we do not look at the
things which are seen, but at
the things which are not seen.
Because, the things which are
seen are temporary, but the
things which are not seen are
eternal.
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Because, we know that if
our earthly house, this tent, is
destroyed, we have a building
from God, a house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens.
Because, in this we groan, earnestly
desiring to be clothed
with our habitation which is
from heaven,
if indeed, having been clothed,
we will not be found naked.
Because, we who are in this
tent groan, being burdened, not
because we want to be unclothed,
but further clothed, that mortality
may be swallowed up by life.
Now He who has prepared us for
this very thing is God, who also has
given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
Therefore we are always confi -
dent, knowing that while we are
at home in the body we are absent
from the Lord.
Because we walk by faith, not
by sight.
We are confi dent, I proclaim, and
willing rather to be absent from
the body and to be present with
the Lord.
Therefore we labor, so that
whether present or absent, we
may be accepted of Him.
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Because, we must all appear
before the judgment seat of
Christ, that each one may receive
the things done in the body,
according to what he has done,
whether it is good or bad.
Knowing, therefore, the terror
of the Lord, we persuade men; but
we are made manifest to God, and
I also trust are made manifest in
your consciences.
Because, we do not commend
ourselves again to you, but give
you opportunity to boast on our
behalf, that you may have something
to answer them who boast
in appearance and not in heart.
Because, if we are beside ourselves,
it is for God; or if we are
sober, it is for you.
Because, the love of Christ compels
us, because we have judged
thus: that if One died for all, then
all died;
and that He died for all, that
those who live should live no longer
for themselves, but for Him
who died for them and rose again.
Therefore, from now on, we
regard no one according to the
fl esh. Even though we have
known Christ according to the
fl esh, yet from now on we know
Him like this no longer.
Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creature; old
things have passed away; behold,
all things have become new.
Now all these things are from
God, who has reconciled us to
Himself by Jesus Christ, and
has given us the ministry of
reconciliation,
that is, that God was in Christ
reconciling the world to Himself,
not imputing their trespasses to
them, and has committed to us
the word of reconciliation.
Now then, we are ambassadors
for Christ, as though God were
pleading to you through us: we
urge you on Christ’s behalf, be
reconciled to God.
Because, He made Him who
knew no sin to be sin for us, that
we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him.
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We then, as workers together
with Him also urge you not to
receive the grace of God in vain.
Because, He says: “In an acceptable
time I have heard you, and in the
day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation.
Giving no off ense in anything,
that the ministry may not be
faulted.
But in all things we commend
ourselves as the ministers of God:
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in much patience, in affl ictions,
in needs, in distresses,
in stripes, in imprisonments, in
riots, in labors, in sleeplessness,
in fastings;
by purity, by knowledge, by
longsuff ering, by kindness, by the
Holy Spirit, by genuine love,
by the word of truth, by the
power of God, by the armor of
righteousness on the right hand
and on the left,
by honor and dishonor, by evil
report and good report; as deceivers,
and yet true;
as unknown, and yet well known;
as dying, and behold we live; as
chastened, and yet not killed;
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;
as poor, yet making many
rich; as having nothing, and yet
possessing all things.
O you Corinthians! Our mouth is
open to you, our heart is wide open.
You are not restricted by us,
but you are restricted by your
own aff ections.
Now in return for the same (I
speak as to my children), you also
be open.
Do not be unequally yoked
together with unbelievers.
Because, what fellowship has
righteousness with unrighteousness?
And what communion has
light with darkness?
And what accord has Christ
with Belial? Or what part has he
who believes with an infi del?
And what agreement has the
temple of God with idols? Because,
you are the temple of the living
God. As God has said: “I will dwell
in them and walk in them. And I
will be their God, and they will be
My people.”
Therefore “Come out from
among them and be separate,
says the Lord. Do not touch what
is unclean, and I will receive you.”
“I will be a Father to you, and
you will be My sons and daughters,
says the LORD Almighty.”
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Therefore, having these promises,
greatly beloved, let us cleanse
ourselves from all fi lthiness of
the fl esh and spirit, perfecting
holiness in the reverence of God.
Receive us. We have wronged no
one, we have corrupted no one,
we have cheated no one.
I do not say this to condemn you;
because I have said before that you
are in our hearts, to die together
and to live together with you.
Great is my boldness of speech
toward you, great is my boasting
on your behalf. I am fi lled with
comfort. I am exceedingly joyful
in all our tribulation.
Because, when we came to
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Macedonia, our bodies had no
rest, but we were troubled on
every side. Outside were confl icts,
inside were fears.
Nevertheless God, who comforts
the downcast, comforted us by
the coming of Titus,
and not only by his coming,
but also by the consolation with
which he was comforted in you,
when he told us of your earnest
desire, your mourning, your fervent
mind towards me, so that I
rejoiced even more.
Because, even though I made
you sorry with my letter, I do not
regret it; though I did regret it.
Because, I perceive that the same
letter made you sorry, though
only for a season.
Now I rejoice, not that you were
made sorry, but that your sorrow
led to repentance. Because you
were made sorry in a godly manner,
that you might suff er loss
from us in nothing.
Because, godly sorrow produces
repentance leading to salvation,
not to be regretted; but the sorrow
of the world produces death.
Because, observe this very
thing, that you sorrowed in a
godly manner: yes what diligence
it produced in you, yes what
clearing of yourselves, yes what
indignation, yes what fear, what
vehement desire, what zeal, what
vindication! In all things you have
proven yourselves to be clear in
this matter.
Therefore, although I wrote
to you, I did not do it because of
him who had done the wrong,
nor because of him who suffered
wrong, but that our care
for you in the sight of God might
appear to you.
Therefore we have been comforted
in your comfort. And we
rejoiced exceedingly more for the
joy of Titus, because his spirit was
refreshed by you all.
Because, if in anything I have
boasted to him about you, I am
not ashamed. But as we spoke all
things to you in truth, even so
our boasting which I made before
Titus was found true.
And his inner aff ections are
greater for you as he remembers
the obedience of you all, how
with reverence and trembling
you received him.
Therefore I rejoice that I have
confi dence in you in all things.
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Moreover, brethren, we make
known to you the grace of God
bestowed on the churches of
Macedonia:
how that in a great trial of
affl iction the abundance of their
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joy and their extreme poverty
abounded in the riches of their
liberality.
Because, I bear record that
according to their ability, yes,
and beyond their ability, they were
freely willing,
urging us with many requests
that we would receive the gift and
take on us the fellowship of the
ministering to the saints.
And this they did, not just as we
hoped, but they fi rst gave themselves
to the Lord, and then to us
by the will of God.
So that we urged Titus, that as
he had begun, so he would also
complete this grace in you also.
Therefore, as you abound in
everything, in faith, in speech, in
knowledge, and in all diligence,
and in your love for us, see that
you abound in this grace also.
I speak not by commandment,
but I am testing the sincerity of
your love by the diligence of others.
Because, you know the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ, that though
He was rich, yet for your sakes He
became poor, that you through
His poverty might be rich.
And in this I give my advice: It is
to your advantage not only to be
doing what you began and were
desiring to do a year ago;
but now you also must complete
the doing of it; that as there was a
readiness to desire it, so there also
may be a completion out of what
you have.
Because, if there is fi rst a willing
mind, it is accepted according
to what one has, and not according
to what he does not have.
Because, I do not mean that
others should be eased and you
burdened;
but by an equality, that now at
this time your abundance may be
a supply for their lack, that their
abundance also may be a supply
for your lack, that there may be
equality.
As it is written, “He who gathered
much had nothing left over, and
he who gathered little had no lack.”
But thanks be to God who put
the same earnest care for you
into the heart of Titus.
Because, he not only accepted
the exhortation, but being more
diligent, he went to you of his
own accord.
And we have sent with him the
brother whose praise is in the gospel
throughout all the churches,
and not only that, but who was also
chosen by the churches to travel with
us with this grace, which is administered
by us to the glory of the Lord
Himself and to show your ready mind,
avoiding this: that anyone
should blame us in this abundance
which is administered by us,
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providing for honorable things,
not only in the sight of the Lord,
but also in the sight of men.
And we have sent with them
our brother whom we have often
proved diligent in many things,
but now much more diligent,
because of the great confi dence
which I have in you.
If anyone inquires about Titus, he
is my partner and fellow worker
concerning you. Or if our brethren
are inquired about, they are
messengers of the churches, and
the glory of Christ.
Therefore show to them, and
before the churches, the proof of
your love and of our boasting on
your behalf.
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Now concerning the ministering
to the saints, it is superfl uous
for me to write to you;
Because, I know your willingness,
about which I boast of you
to the Macedonians, that Achaia
was ready a year ago; and your
zeal has stirred up the majority.
Yet I have sent the brethren, lest
our boasting of you should be in
vain in this respect, that, you may
be ready, as I said;
lest if some Macedonians come
with me and fi nd you unprepared,
we (that we do not mention you)
should be ashamed of this confi -
dent boasting.
Therefore I thought it necessary
to exhort the brethren to go to
you ahead of time, and prepare
your generous gift beforehand,
of which you had previous notifi -
cation, that it may be ready as a
matter of generosity and not as a
grudging obligation.
But this I say: He who sows sparingly
will also reap sparingly, and
he who sows bountifully will also
reap bountifully.
So let each one give, according as he
purposes in his heart, not grudgingly
or of necessity; because, God
loves a cheerful giver.
And God is able to make all
grace abound toward you, that
you, always having all suffi ciency
in all things, may have an abundance
for every good work.
As it is written: “He has dispersed
abroad, he has given to the
poor; his righteousness endures
forever.”
Now He who supplies seed to
the sower, also supply bread for
your food, multiply your seed
sown, and increase the fruits of
your righteousness,
being enriched in everything
for all abundance, which causes
thanksgiving through us to God.
Because, the administration
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of this service not only supplies
the needs of the saints, but also
is abounding through many
thanksgivings to God,
while, through the proof of this
ministry, they glorify God for the
obedience of your confession to
the gospel of Christ, and for your
liberal distribution to them and
all people,
and by their prayer for you,
who long for you because of the
exceeding grace of God in you.
Thanks be to God for His indescribable
gift!
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Now I, Paul, myself urge with
you by the meekness and gentleness
of Christ, who in presence
am lowly among you, but being
absent am bold toward you.
But I urge you that when I am
present I may not be bold with
that confi dence by which I
intend to be bold against some,
who think of us as if we walked
according to the fl esh.
Because, though we walk in the
fl esh, we do not war according to
the fl esh.
Because, the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal but mighty
through God for the pulling down
of strongholds,
casting down imaginations and
every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God,
bringing every thought into captivity
to the obedience of Christ,
and being ready to punish all
disobedience when your obedience
is fulfi lled.
Do you look at things according
to the outward appearance?
If anyone is convinced in himself
that he is Christ’s, let him again
consider this in himself, that just
as he is Christ’s, even so we are
Christ’s.
Because, even if I should boast
somewhat more about our
authority, which the Lord gave
us for edifi cation and not for
your destruction, I will not be
ashamed,
lest I seem as if I would to terrify
you by letters.
“Because, his letters,” they say,
“are weighty and powerful, but his
bodily presence is weak, and his
speech contemptible.”
Let such a person consider this,
that what we are in word by letters
when we are absent, such we
will also be in deed when we are
present.
Because, we dare not classify
ourselves or compare ourselves
with those who commend themselves.
But they, measuring
themselves by themselves, and
comparing themselves among
themselves, are not wise.
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We, however, will not boast of
things beyond our measure, but
according to the measure of the
infl uence which God has distributed
to us, a measure to reach to you also.
Because, we do not stretch
ourselves beyond our measure, as
though we did not extend to you,
because, we have come as far as to
you also with the preaching of the
gospel of Christ;
not boasting of things beyond
our measure, that is, in other men’s
labors, but having hope, that as
your faith is increased, that we
will be enlarged abundantly by
you according to our infl uence,
to preach the gospel in the
regions beyond you, and not to
boast in another man’s sphere of
accomplishment.
But “he who glories, let him
glory in the LORD.”
Because, not he who commends
himself is approved, but whom
the Lord commends.
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Oh, that you would bear with me
in a little in my folly, and indeed
you do bear with me.
Because, I am jealous for you
with godly jealousy. Because, I
have betrothed you to one husband,
that I may present you as a
pure virgin to Christ.
But I fear, lest somehow, as
the serpent deceived Eve by his
craftiness, so your minds may
be corrupted from the simplicity
that is in Christ.
Because, if he who comes
preaches another Jesus whom
we have not preached, or if you
receive a diff erent spirit which
you have not received, or a different
gospel which you have not
accepted, you may well put up
with him!
Because, I consider that I am not
at all inferior to the most eminent
apostles.
Even though I am untrained
in speech, yet I am not in
knowledge. But we have been
thoroughly manifested among
you in all things.
Did I commit sin in humbling
myself that you might be exalted,
because I have preached the gospel
of God to you free of charge?
I took from other churches,
taking wages from them to minister
to you.
And when I was present with
you, and in need, I was a burden
to no one, because, what I lacked
the brethren who came from
Macedonia supplied. And in all
things I kept myself from being
burdensome to you, and so I will
keep myself.
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As the truth of Christ is in me,
no one will stop me from this
boasting in the regions of Achaia.
Why? Because I do not love you?
God knows!
But what I do, I will also continue
to do, that I may cut off
the opportunity from those
who desire an opportunity to be
regarded just as we are in the
things of which they boast.
Because, such are false
apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into
apostles of Christ.
And no wonder! Because, Satan
himself is transformed into an
angel of light.
Therefore it is no great
thing if his ministers also are
transformed into ministers of
righteousness, whose end will be
according to their works.
I say again, let no one think
me a fool. If otherwise, at least
receive me as a fool, that I also
may boast a little.
What I speak, I speak not
according to the Lord, but as it
were, foolishly, in this confi dence
of boasting.
Seeing that many boast according
to the fl esh, I also will boast.
Because, you put up with fools
gladly, since you yourselves are wise!
because, you put up with it if
one brings you into bondage, if
one devours you, if one takes from
you, if one exalts himself, if one
strikes you on the face.
To our shame I say that we were
too weak for that! But in whatever
anyone is bold, I speak foolishly, I
am bold also.
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are
they Israelites? So am I. Are they
the seed of Abraham? So am I.
Are they ministers of Christ?
I speak as a fool, I am more: in
labors more abundant, in stripes
above measure, in prisons more
frequently, in deaths often.
From the Jews fi ve times I
received forty stripes minus one.
Three times I was beaten with
rods; once I was stoned; three
times I was shipwrecked; a night
and a day I have been in the deep;
in frequent journeys, in danger
from waters, in danger from
robbers, in danger from my own
countrymen, in danger from the
Gentiles, in danger in the city, in
danger in the wilderness, in danger
in the sea, in danger among
false brethren;
in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness
often, in hunger and
thirst, in fastings often, in cold
and nakedness,
besides those things that are
external, what comes upon me
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daily: the concern for all the
churches.
Who is weak, and I am not
weak? Who is off ended, and I do
not burn with indignation?
If I must boast, I will boast in
the things which concern my
weakness.
The God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever,
knows that I am not lying.
In Damascus the governor,
under Aretas the king, was guarding
the city of the Damascenes
with a garrison, desiring to
arrest me;
but I was let down in a basket
through a window by the wall,
and escaped from his hands.
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It is obviously not profi table for
me to boast. I will come to visions
and revelations of the Lord:
I knew a man in Christ who
over fourteen years ago (whether
in the body I do not know, or
whether out of the body I do not
know, God knows) such a one was
caught up to the third heaven.
And I knew such a man (whether
in the body or out of the body I do
not know, God knows)
how he was caught up into
Paradise and heard inexpressible
words, which it is not lawful for a
man to utter.
Of such a one I will boast; yet of
myself I will not boast, except in
my weaknesses.
Because though I might desire to
boast, I will not be a fool; because
I will speak the truth. But now I
refrain, lest anyone should think
of me above what he sees me to be
or that he hears from me.
And lest I should be exalted
above measure by the abundance
of the revelations, a thorn in the
fl esh was given to me, a messenger
of Satan to wound me, lest I be
exalted above measure.
Concerning this thing I sought
the Lord three times that it might
depart from me.
And He said to me, “My grace
is suffi cient for you, because My
strength is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore most gladly I will
rather boast in my weaknesses,
that the power of Christ may rest
upon me.
Therefore I take pleasure in
weaknesses, in reproaches, in
needs, in persecutions, in distresses,
for Christ’s sake. Because
when I am weak, then I am strong.
I have become a fool in boasting;
you have compelled me. Because,
I ought to have been commended
by you; because, in nothing was
I behind the most eminent apostles,
though I am nothing.
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Truly the signs of an apostle
were accomplished among you
with all perseverance, in signs
and wonders and mighty deeds.
Because, what is it in which you
were inferior to other churches,
except it is that I myself was not
burdensome to you? Forgive me
this wrong!
Behold, the third time I am
ready to come to you. And I
will not be burdensome to you;
because, I do not seek yours, but
you. Because, the children ought
not to lay up for the parents, but
the parents for the children.
And I will very gladly spend
and be spent for you; though the
more abundantly I love you, the
less I am loved.
But be that as it may, I did not
burden you. Nevertheless, being
crafty, I caught you with craftiness!
Did I take advantage of you by
any of those whom I sent to you?
I urged Titus, and sent our
brother with him. Did Titus take
advantage of you? Did we not
walk in the same spirit? Did we
not walk in the same steps?
Again, do you think that we
excuse ourselves to you? We
speak before God in Christ. But
we do all things, beloved, for your
edifi cation.
Because, I fear lest, when I
come, I will not fi nd you such as
I wish, and that I will be found
by you such as you do not wish;
lest there be debates, jealousies,
outbursts of wrath, selfi sh ambitions,
backbitings, whisperings,
puff ed up pride, commotion;
and lest, when I come again, my
God will humble me among you,
and that I will mourn for many
who have sinned already and
have not repented of the uncleanness,
fornication, and lewdness
which they have committed.
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This is the third time I am coming
to you. “By the mouth of two
or three witnesses shall every
word be established.”
I have told you before, and
foretell you, as if I were present
the second time, and now being
absent I write to those who have
sinned already, and to all the rest,
that if I come again I will not spare
since you seek a proof of Christ
speaking in me, who is not weak
toward you, but mighty in you.
Because, though He was crucifi
ed in weakness, yet He lives by
the power of God. Because, we
also are weak in Him, but we will
live with Him by the power of God
toward you.
Examine yourselves as to
whether you are in the faith.
Test yourselves. Do you not know
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yourselves, that Jesus Christ is
in you? Unless indeed you are
reprobates.
But I trust that you shall know
that we are not reprobates.
Now I pray to God that you do
no evil, not that we should appear
approved, but that you should do
what is honest, even though we
are as reprobates.
Because, we can do nothing
against the truth, but for the truth.
Because, we are glad when we
are weak and you are strong. And
this also we desire, even your
perfection.
Therefore I write these things
being absent, lest being present I
should use sharpness, according
to the authority which the Lord
has given me for edifi cation and
not for destruction.
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be
perfect. Be of good comfort, be
of one mind, live in peace; and
the God of love and peace will be
with you.
Greet one another with a
holy kiss.
All the saints greet you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and the love of God, and
the communion of the Holy Spirit
be with you all. Amen.
(The second letter to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia,
by Titus and Lucas.)
THE LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
GALATIANS
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Paul, an apostle (not from men
nor by man, but by Jesus Christ
and God the Father who raised
Him from the dead),
and all the brethren who are
with me, to the churches of
Galatia:
Grace be to you and peace from
God the Father and from our Lord
Jesus Christ,
who gave Himself for our sins,
that He might deliver us from this
present evil age, according to the
will of our God and Father,
to whom be glory forever and
ever. Amen.
I marvel that you are turning
away so soon from Him who
called you into the grace of Christ,
to another gospel,
which is not another; but there
are some who trouble you and want
to pervert the gospel of Christ.
But even if we, or an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel to
you than what we have preached
to you, let him be accursed.
As we have said before, so now I
say again, if anyone preaches any
other gospel to you than what
you have received, let him be
accursed.
So am I now persuading men,
or God? Or do I seek to please
men? Because if I still pleased
men, I would not be the servant
of Christ.
But I make known to you, brethren,
that the gospel which was
preached by me is not according
to man.
Because, I neither received it
from man, nor was I taught it, but
it came by the revelation of Jesus
Christ.
Because, you have heard of my
former conduct in Judaism, how I
persecuted the church of God
beyond measure and destroyed
it.
And I advanced in Judaism
beyond many of my contemporaries
in my own nation, being
more exceedingly zealous for the
traditions of my fathers.
But when it pleased God, who
separated me from my mother’s
womb and called me by His grace,
to reveal His Son in me, that
I might preach Him among the
Gentiles, I did not immediately
confer with fl esh and blood,
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to
those who were apostles before
me; but I went to Arabia, and
returned again to Damascus.
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Then after three years I went
up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and
remained with him fi fteen days.
But I saw none of the other apostles
except James, the Lord’s brother.
(Now concerning the things
which I write to you, indeed,
before God, I do not lie.)
Afterward I came into the
regions of Syria and Cilicia.
And I was unknown by face to
the churches of Judea which were
in Christ.
But they had heard only, “He who
formerly persecuted us now preaches
the faith which he once destroyed.”
And they glorifi ed God in me.
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Then after fourteen years I went up
again to Jerusalem with Barnabas,
and took Titus with me also.
And I went up by revelation,
and communicated to them that
gospel which I preach among the
Gentiles, but privately to those
who were of reputation, lest by
any means I might run, or had
run, in vain.
Yet not even Titus who was with
me, being a Greek, was compelled
to be circumcised.
And this arose because of false
brethren secretly brought in (who
came in secretly to spy out our
liberty which we have in Christ
Jesus, that they might bring us
into bondage),
to whom we did not yield submission
even for an hour, that the
truth of the gospel might continue
with you.
But from those who seemed
to be something (whatever they
were, it makes no diff erence to
me; God shows personal favoritism
to no man) because, those
who seemed to be something added
nothing to me.
But on the contrary, when they
saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised
had been committed to
me, as the gospel for the circumcised
was to Peter
because, He who worked eff ectively
in Peter for the apostleship to
the circumcised also worked eff ectively
in me toward the Gentiles,
and when James, Cephas, and
John, who seemed to be pillars,
perceived the grace that had
been given to me, they gave me
and Barnabas the right hand of
fellowship, that we should go to
the Gentiles and they to the
circumcised.
Desiring only that we should
remember the poor, the very
thing which I also was eager to do.
But when Peter had come to
Antioch, I withstood him to his
face, because he was to be blamed;
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because, before certain men
came from James, he would eat
with the Gentiles; but when they
came, he withdrew and separated
himself, fearing those who
were of the circumcision.
And the rest of the Jews also
played the hypocrite with him, so
that even Barnabas was carried
away with their hypocrisy.
But when I saw that they were
not straightforward about the
truth of the gospel, I said to Peter
before them all, “If you, being a
Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles
and not as the Jews, why do you
compel Gentiles to live as Jews?
We who are Jews by nature, and
not sinners of the Gentiles,
knowing that a man is not justifi
ed by the works of the law but by
the faith of Jesus Christ, even we
have believed in Jesus Christ, that
we might be justifi ed by the faith
of Christ and not by the works of
the law; because by the works of
the law no fl esh will be justifi ed.
“But if, while we seek to be justifi
ed by Christ, we ourselves also
are found sinners, is Christ therefore
a minister of sin? God forbid!
Because, if I build again those
things which I destroyed, I make
myself a transgressor.
Because, I through the law died
to the law that I might live to God.
I am crucifi ed with Christ; nevertheless
I live, yet not I but Christ
lives in me; and the life which I
now live in the fl esh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved
me and gave Himself for me.
I do not reject the grace of
God; because, if righteousness
comes through the law, then
Christ died in vain.”
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O foolish Galatians! Who has
bewitched you that you should
not obey the truth, before whose
eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed
among you as crucifi ed?
This only I want to learn from
you: Did you receive the Spirit by
the works of the law, or by the
hearing of faith?
Are you so foolish? Having
begun in the Spirit, are you now
being made perfect by the fl esh?
Have you suff ered so many things
in vain, if indeed it was in vain?
Therefore He who supplies the
Spirit to you and works miracles
among you, does He do it by the
works of the law, or by the hearing
of faith?
Just as Abraham “believed God,
and it was accounted to him for
righteousness.”
Therefore know that those who
are of faith, the same are children
of Abraham.
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And the Scripture, foreseeing
that God would justify the
Gentiles through faith, preached
the gospel to Abraham beforehand,
saying, “In you all the
nations will be blessed.”
So then those who are of faith are
blessed with faithful Abraham.
Because, as many as are of
the works of the law are under
the curse; because it is written,
“Cursed is everyone who does not
continue in all things which are
written in the book of the law, to
do them.”
But that no one is justifi ed by
the law in the sight of God is evident,
because “the just will live by
faith.”
Yet the law is not of faith, but
“the man who does them will live
in them.”
Christ has redeemed us from
the curse of the law, having
become a curse for us (because
it is written, “Cursed is everyone
who hangs on a tree”),
that the blessing of Abraham
might come upon the Gentiles
through Christ Jesus, that we
might receive the promise of the
Spirit through faith.
Brethren, I speak in the manner
of men: Though it is only a man’s
covenant, yet if it is confi rmed, no
one annuls or adds to it.
Now to Abraham and his Seed
were the promises made. He does
not say, “And to seeds,” as of
many, but as of one, “And to your
Seed,” who is Christ.
And this I say, that the law, which
was four hundred and thirty years
later, cannot annul the covenant
that was confi rmed before by God
in Christ, that it should make the
promise of no eff ect.
Because, if the inheritance is of
the law, it is no longer of promise;
but God gave it to Abraham by
promise.
What purpose then does the
law serve? It was added because
of transgressions, until the Seed
should come to whom the promise
was made; and it was ordained
through angels by the hand of a
mediator.
Now a mediator does not mediate
for one only, but God is one.
Is the law then against the
promises of God? God forbid!
Because, if there had been a law
given which could have given life,
truly righteousness would have
been by the law.
But the Scripture has concluded
all under sin, that the promise by
faith, of Jesus Christ, might be
given to those who believe.
But before faith came, we were
preserved by the law, preserved
for the faith which would afterward
be revealed.
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Therefore the law was an
instructor to bring us to Christ,
that we might be justifi ed by faith.
But after faith has come, we are
no longer under an instructor.
Because, you are all sons of God
by faith in Christ Jesus.
Because, as many of you as have
been baptized into Christ have
put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither slave nor free,
there is neither male nor female;
because you are all one in Christ
Jesus.
And if you are Christ’s, then you
are Abraham’s seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
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Now I say that the heir, as long
as he is a child, does not diff er at
all from a servant, though he is
master of all,
but is under instructors and
stewards until the time appointed
by the father.
Even so we, when we were children,
were in bondage under the
elements of the world.
But when the fullness of the
time had come, God sent forth His
Son, born of a woman, born under
the law,
to redeem those who were under
the law, that we might receive the
adoption as sons.
And because you are sons, God
has sent forth the Spirit of His Son
into your hearts, crying, “Abba,
Father!”
Therefore you are no longer a
servant but a son, and if a son,
then an heir of God through
Christ.
But then, indeed, when you did
not know God, you served those
which by nature are not gods.
But now after you have known
God, or rather are known by God,
how is it that you turn again to the
weak and beggarly elements, to
which you desire again to be in
bondage?
You observe days and months
and seasons and years.
I am afraid for you, lest I have
labored for you in vain.
Brethren, I urge you to be as
I am, because I am as you are. You
have not injured me at all.
You know that because of
physical weakness I preached the
gospel to you at the fi rst.
And my trial which was in my
fl esh you did not despise or reject,
but you received me as an angel of
God, even as Christ Jesus.
What then was the blessing you
spoke of? Because, I bear you witness
that, if possible, you would
have plucked out your own eyes
and given them to me.
Have I therefore become your
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enemy because I tell you the
truth?
They are zealous for you, but for no
good; yes, they want to exclude you,
that you may be zealous for them.
But it is good to be zealous in
a good thing always, and not only
when I am present with you.
My little children, for whom I
labor in birth again until Christ is
formed in you,
I desire to be present with
you now and to change my tone;
because I stand in doubt concerning
you.
Tell me, you who desire to be
under the law, do you not hear the
law?
Because, it is written that
Abraham had two sons: the one
by a bondwoman, the other by a
freewoman.
But he who was of the bondwoman
was born according to
the fl esh, and he of the freewoman
was by promise,
which things are an allegory.
Because, these are the two covenants:
the one from Mount Sinai
which gives birth to bondage,
which is Hagar.
Because, this Hagar is Mount
Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds
to Jerusalem which now is, and is
in bondage with her children.
But the Jerusalem above is free,
which is the mother of us all.
Because, it is written: “Rejoice,
you barren, you who do not bear!
Break forth and cry, you who are
not in labor! Because, the desolate
has many more children than
she who has a husband.”
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,
are children of promise.
But, as he who was born according
to the fl esh then persecuted
him who was born according to the
Spirit, even so it is now.
Nevertheless what does the
Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman
and her son, because,
the son of the bondwoman will
not be heir with the son of the
freewoman.”
So then, brethren, we are not
children of the bondwoman but
of the free.
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Stand fast therefore in the liberty
by which Christ has made
us free, and do not be entangled
again with a yoke of bondage.
Behold I, Paul, say to you that if
you become circumcised, Christ
will profi t you nothing.
And I testify again to every man
who becomes circumcised that he
is a debtor to keep the entire law.
Christ has become of no eff ect
to you, those of you who are justifi
ed by law; you have fallen from
grace.
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Because, we through the Spirit
wait for the hope of righteousness
by faith.
Because, in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision
avails anything, but faith working
through love.
You ran well. Who hindered you
from obeying the truth?
This persuasion does not come
from Him who calls you.
A little leaven leavens the entire
lump.
I have confi dence in you,
through the Lord, that you will
have no other mind; but he who
troubles you will bear his judgment,
whoever he is.
And I, brethren, if I still preach
circumcision, why do I still suff er
persecution? Then the off ense of
the cross has ceased.
I desire that those who trouble
you were cut off .
Because you, brethren, have
been called to liberty; only do
not use liberty as an opportunity
for the fl esh, but through love
serve one another.
Because all the law is fulfi lled in
one word, even in this: “You shall
love your neighbor as yourself.”
But if you bite and devour one
another, beware that you are not
consumed by one another!
This I say then: Walk in the
Spirit, and you will not fulfi ll the
lust of the fl esh.
Because, the fl esh lusts against
the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the fl esh; and these are contrary
to one another, so that you do not
do the things that you want.
But if you are led by the Spirit,
you are not under the law.
Now the works of the fl esh are
evident, which are these: adultery,
fornication, uncleanness,
lustfulness,
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
fi ghts, jealousies, rage, selfi sh
ambitions, rebellion, heresies,
envy, murders, drunkenness,
partying, and the like; of which
I tell you beforehand, just as I
also told you in time past, that
those who do such things will not
inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuff ering,
kindness, goodness, faith,
meekness, self control. Against
such there is no law.
And those who are Christ’s have
crucifi ed the fl esh with its passions
and desires.
If we live in the Spirit, let us
also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not desire vain glory,
provoking one another, envying
one another.
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Brethren, if anyone is overtaken
in any trespass, you who are spiritual
restore such a one in a spirit
of meekness, considering yourself
lest you also be tempted.
Bear one another’s burdens, and
so fulfi ll the law of Christ.
Because, if anyone thinks himself
to be something, when he is
nothing, he deceives himself.
But let each one examine his
own work, and then he will have
rejoicing in himself alone, and
not in another.
Because each one shall bear his
own load.
Let him who is taught the word
communicate in every good thing
with him who teaches.
Do not be deceived, God is not
mocked; because whatever a man
sows, that he will also reap.
Because, he who sows to his
fl esh will of the fl esh reap corruption,
but he who sows to the Spirit
will of the Spirit reap everlasting
life.
And let us not grow weary while
doing good, because in due season
we will reap if we do not lose
heart.
Therefore, as we have opportunity,
let us do good to everyone,
especially to those who are of the
household of faith.
You see what a large letter I
have written to you with my own
hand!
As many as desire to make a
good showing in the fl esh, these
compel you to be circumcised,
only lest they should suff er persecution
for the cross of Christ.
Because, not even those who
are circumcised keep the law, but
they desire to have you circumcised
that they may boast in your
fl esh.
But God forbid that I should
boast except in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the
world has been crucifi ed to me,
and I to the world.
Because, in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision
avails anything, but a new
creature.
And as many as walk according
to this rule, peace and mercy be
upon them, and upon the Israel
of God.
From now on let no one trouble
me, because I bear in my body the
marks of the Lord Jesus.
Brethren, the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with your
spirit. Amen.
(To the Galatians written from Rome.)
THE LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
by the will of God, to the saints
who are in Ephesus, and faithful
in Christ Jesus:
Grace be to you and peace from
God our Father and from the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly places
in Christ,
just as He has chosen us in Him
before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy
and without blame before Him
in love,
having predestined us to adoption
as children by Jesus Christ
to Himself, according to the good
pleasure of His will,
to the praise of the glory of His
grace, by which He has made us
accepted in the Beloved.
In Him we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness
of sins, according to the
riches of His grace
which He made to abound
toward us in all wisdom and
prudence,
having made known to us the
mystery of His will, according to
His good pleasure which He has
purposed in Himself,
that in the dispensation of the
fullness of the times He might
gather together in one all things
in Christ, both which are in
heaven and which are on earth,
even in Him.
In Him also we have obtained
an inheritance, being predestined
according to the purpose of
Him who works all things according
to the counsel of His own will,
that we who fi rst trusted in
Christ should be to the praise of
His glory.
In Him you also trusted, after you
heard the word of truth, the gospel
of your salvation; in whom also,
after you believed, you were sealed
with the Holy Spirit of promise,
who is the guarantee of our
inheritance until the redemption
of the purchased possession, to
the praise of His glory.
Therefore I also, after I heard
of your faith in the Lord Jesus and
your love for all the saints,
do not cease to give thanks for
you, making mention of you in
my prayers:
that the God of our Lord Jesus
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Christ, the Father of glory, may
give to you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge
of Him,
the eyes of your understanding
being enlightened; that you may
know what is the hope of His calling,
what are the riches of the glory
of His inheritance in the saints,
and what is the exceeding
greatness of His power toward
us who believe, according to the
working of His mighty power
which He worked in Christ
when He raised Him from the
dead and seated Him at His own
right hand in the heavenly places,
far above all principality and
power and might and dominion,
and every name that is named,
not only in this age but also in
that which is to come.
And has put all things under His
feet, and gave Him to be the head
over all things to the church,
which is His body, the fullness
of Him who fi lls all in all.
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And you He has made alive, who
were dead in trespasses and sins,
in which you once walked
according to the course of this
world, according to the prince
of the power of the air, the spirit
who now works in the children of
disobedience,
among whom also we all once
conducted ourselves in the lusts
of our fl esh, fulfi lling the desires
of the fl esh and of the mind, and
were by nature children of wrath,
just as the others.
But God, who is rich in mercy,
because of His great love with
which He loved us,
even when we were dead in
sins, made us alive together with
Christ (by grace you are saved),
and has raised us up together,
and made us sit together in the
heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
that in the ages to come He
might show the exceeding riches
of His grace in His kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus.
Because, it is by grace you are
saved through faith, and that not
of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
not of works, lest anyone should
boast.
Because, we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared beforehand
that we should walk in them.
Therefore remember that you,
once Gentiles in the fl esh, who are
called Uncircumcision by what is
called the Circumcision made in
the fl esh by hands,
that at that time you were
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without Christ, being aliens from
the commonwealth of Israel and
strangers from the covenants
of promise, having no hope and
without God in the world.
But now in Christ Jesus you who
once were far off have been brought
near by the blood of Christ.
Because, He is our peace, who
has made both one, and has broken
down the middle wall of
separation between us,
having abolished in His fl esh
the enmity, that is, the law of
commandments contained in ordinances,
so as to make in Himself
one new man from the two, thus
making peace,
and that He might reconcile
them both to God in one body
by the cross, thereby putting to
death the enmity.
And came and preached peace
to you who were afar off and to
those who were near.
Because, through Him we both
have access by one Spirit to the
Father.
Now, therefore, you are no longer
strangers and foreigners, but
fellow citizens with the saints
and members of the household of
God,
and are built upon the foundation
of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ Himself being the
chief cornerstone,
in whom the entire building,
being fi tted together, grows into
a holy temple in the Lord,
in whom you also are being
built together for a dwelling place
of God through the Spirit.
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For this reason I, Paul, the
prisoner of Jesus Christ for you
Gentiles,
if indeed you have heard of the
dispensation of the grace of God
which was given to me for you,
how that by revelation He made
known to me the mystery (as I
have briefl y written already,
by which, when you read, you
may understand my knowledge
in the mystery of Christ),
which in other ages was not
made known to the sons of men,
as it has now been revealed by
the Spirit to His holy apostles and
prophets:
that the Gentiles should be fellow
heirs, of the same body, and
partakers of His promise in Christ
through the gospel,
of which I became a minister
according to the gift of the grace
of God given to me by the eff ective
working of His power.
To me, who am less than the
least of all the saints, this grace
was given, that I should preach
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among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ,
and to make all people see what
is the fellowship of the mystery,
which from the beginning of the
ages has been hidden in God who
created all things by Jesus Christ;
to the intent that now the
manifold wisdom of God might be
made known by the church to the
principalities and powers in the
heavenly places,
according to the eternal purpose
which He accomplished in
Christ Jesus our Lord,
in whom we have boldness and
access with confi dence by the
faith of Him.
Therefore I ask that you do not
lose heart at my tribulations for
you, which is your glory.
For this reason I bow my knees to
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
from whom the whole family in
heaven and earth is named,
that He would grant you, according
to the riches of His glory, to be
strengthened with might by His
Spirit in the inner man,
that Christ may dwell in your
hearts by faith; that you, being
rooted and grounded in love,
may be able to comprehend with
all the saints what is the width and
length and depth and height,
to know the love of Christ
which passes knowledge; that you
may be fi lled with all the fullness
of God.
Now to Him who is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to
the power that works in us,
to Him be glory in the church
by Christ Jesus throughout all
ages, forever and ever. Amen.
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I, therefore, the prisoner of the
Lord, urge you to walk worthy of
the calling with which you were
called,
with all lowliness and meekness,
with longsuffering, bearing
with one another in love,
endeavoring to keep the unity
of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body and one Spirit,
just as you are called in one hope
of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
one God and Father of all, who
is above all, and through all, and
in you all.
But to each one of us grace is
given according to the measure
of the gift of Christ.
Therefore He says: “When He
ascended on high, He led captivity
captive, and gave gifts to
men.”
(Now this, “He ascended,” what
does it mean but that He also first
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descended into the lower parts of
the earth?
He who descended is also the
same who ascended up far above
all the heavens, that He might fill
all things.)
And He gave some to be apostles,
some prophets, some evangelists,
and some pastors and
teachers,
for the perfecting of the saints,
for the work of the ministry, for
the edifying of the body of Christ,
until we all come to the unity of
the faith and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, to a perfect man,
to the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ;
that we should no longer be children,
tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of
doctrine, by the trickery of men,
and cunning craftiness, in which
they make plans to deceive,
but, speaking the truth in love,
may grow up in all things into
Him who is the head, who is Christ,
from whom the entire body,
joined and knit together by what
every joint supplies, according to
the effective working by which
every part does its share, causes
growth of the body for the edifying
of itself in love.
This I say, therefore, and testify
in the Lord, that you should
no longer walk as the rest of the
Gentiles walk, in the vanity of
their mind,
having their understanding
darkened, being alienated from
the life of God, through the ignorance
that is in them, because of
the blindness of their heart;
who, being past feeling, have
given themselves over to filthiness,
to work all uncleanness
with greediness.
But you have not so learned
Christ,
if indeed you have heard Him
and have been taught by Him, as
the truth is in Jesus:
that you put off, concerning
your former conduct, the old man
which is corrupted according to
the deceitful lusts,
and be renewed in the spirit of
your mind,
and that you put on the new
man which was created according
to God, in righteousness and true
holiness.
Therefore, putting away lying,
“every one speak truth with his
neighbor,” because we are members
of one another.
“Be angry, and do not sin”: do
not let the sun go down on your
wrath,
nor give place to the devil.
Let him who stole steal no
longer, but rather let him labor,
working with his hands that
which is good, that he may have
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something to give him who has
need.
Let no corrupt word proceed
out of your mouth, but what is
good for necessary edification,
that it may minister grace to the
hearers.
And do not grieve the Holy
Spirit of God, by whom you were
sealed for the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger,
clamor, and evil speaking be put
away from you, with all malice.
And be kind to one another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, just as God forgave you
because of Christ.
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You therefore be followers of
God as dear children.
And walk in love, as Christ also
has loved us and given Himself for
us, an offering and a sacrifice to
God for a sweet smelling aroma.
But fornication and all uncleanness
or covetousness, let it not
even be named among you, as is
fitting for saints;
neither filthiness, nor foolish
talking, nor coarse jesting, which
are not fitting, but rather giving
of thanks.
Because, you know this; that no
fornicator, unclean person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater,
has any inheritance in the kingdom
of Christ and of God.
Let no one deceive you with vain
words, for because of these things
the wrath of God comes upon the
children of disobedience.
Therefore do not be partakers
with them.
Because, you were once darkness,
but now you are light in the
Lord. Walk as children of light
(because, the fruit of the Spirit
is in all goodness, righteousness,
and truth),
finding out what is acceptable
to the Lord.
And have no fellowship with
the unfruitful works of darkness,
but rather reprove them.
Because, it is shameful even to
speak of those things which are
done by them in secret.
But all things that are exposed
are made manifest by the light,
because whatever makes manifest
is light.
Therefore He says: “Awake, you
who sleep, arise from the dead,
and Christ will give you light.”
See then that you walk circumspectly,
not as fools but as wise,
redeeming the time, because
the days are evil.
Therefore do not be unwise, but
understand what the will of the
Lord is.
And do not be drunk with wine,
in which is dissipation; but be
filled with the Spirit,
speaking to yourselves in
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psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord,
giving thanks always for all
things to God, even the Father in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
submitting yourselves to one
another in the reverence of God.
Wives, submit yourselves to
your own husbands, as to the
Lord.
Because, the husband is the
head of the wife, just as Christ is
head of the church; and He is the
Savior of the body.
Therefore, just as the church
is subject to Christ, so let the
wives be to their own husbands in
everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just
as Christ also loved the church
and gave Himself for her,
that He might sanctify and
cleanse her with the washing of
water by the word,
that He might present her to
Himself a glorious church, not
having spot or wrinkle or any
such thing, but that she should be
holy and without blemish.
So husbands ought to love their
wives as their own bodies; he who
loves his wife loves himself.
Because, no one ever hated
his own fl esh, but nourishes and
cherishes it, just as the Lord does
the church.
Because, we are members of His
body, of His fl esh and of His bones.
“For this reason a man shall
leave his father and mother and
will be joined to his wife, and the
two will become one fl esh.”
This is a great mystery, but I
speak concerning Christ and the
church.
Nevertheless let each one of
you in particular so love his own
wife just as himself, and let the
wife see that she reverence her
husband.
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Children, obey your parents in
the Lord, because this is right.
“Honor your father and mother,”
which is the first commandment
with promise:
“that it may be well with you and
you may live long on the earth.”
And you, fathers, do not provoke
your children to wrath, but
bring them up in the training and
admonition of the Lord.
Servants, be obedient to those
who are your masters according
to the flesh, with reverence and
trembling, in sincerity of heart,
as to Christ;
not with eye service, as men
pleasers, but as servants of Christ,
doing the will of God from the
heart,
with goodwill doing service, as
to the Lord, and not to men,
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knowing that whatever good
anyone does, he will receive the
same from the Lord, whether he is
a servant or free.
And you, masters, do the same
things to them, giving up threatening,
knowing that your own
Master also is in heaven, and
there is no personal favoritism
with Him.
Finally, my brethren, be strong
in the Lord and in the power of
His might.
Put on the whole armor of God,
that you may be able to stand
against the schemes of the devil.
Because, we do not wrestle
against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this age, against spiritual
wickedness in the heavenly
places.
Therefore take up the whole
armor of God, that you may be
able to withstand in the evil day,
and having done everything, to
stand.
Stand therefore, having
wrapped your waist with truth,
having put on the breastplate of
righteousness,
and shod your feet with the
preparation of the gospel of
peace;
above all, taking the shield of
faith with which you will be able
to quench all the fiery darts of
the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God;
praying always with all prayer
and supplication in the Spirit,
being watchful to this end with
all perseverance and supplication
for all the saints;
and for me, that utterance may
be given to me, that I may open
my mouth boldly to make known
the mystery of the gospel,
for which I am an ambassador
in chains; that in it I may speak
boldly, as I ought to speak.
But that you also may know
my affairs and how I am doing,
Tychicus, a beloved brother and
faithful minister in the Lord, will
make all things known to you;
whom I have sent to you for this
very purpose, that you may know
our affairs, and that he may comfort
your hearts.
Peace be to the brethren, and
love with faith, from God the
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Grace be with all those who love
our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
Amen.
(Written from Rome, to the Ephesians, by Tychicus.)
THE LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
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Paul and Timothy, the servants
of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in
Christ Jesus who are in Philippi,
with the bishops and deacons:
Grace be to you and peace from
God our Father and from the Lord
Jesus Christ.
I thank my God upon every
remembrance of you,
always in every prayer of mine
for you all, making request with
joy,
for your fellowship in the gospel
from the fi rst day until now,
being confi dent of this very
thing, that He who has begun a
good work in you will perform it
until the day of Jesus Christ;
just as it is right for me to think
this of you all, because I have you
in my heart, inasmuch as both in
my chains and in the defense and
confi rmation of the gospel, you
all are partakers of my grace.
Because, God is my record, how
greatly I long for you all with the
aff ection of Jesus Christ.
And this I pray, that your love
may abound still more and
more in knowledge and in all
discernment,
that you may approve the
things that are excellent, that
you may be sincere and without
off ense until the day of Christ,
being fi lled with the fruits
of righteousness which are by
Jesus Christ, to the glory and
praise of God.
But I want you to understand,
brethren, that the things which
happened to me have actually
turned out for the furtherance of
the gospel,
so that my chains in Christ
have become evident to the
entire palace, and in every other
place;
and many of the brethren in the
Lord, having become confi dent by
my chains, are much more bold to
speak the word without fear.
Some indeed preach Christ
even from envy and strife, and
some also from goodwill:
The former preach Christ from
contention, not sincerely, supposing
to add affl iction to my chains;
but the other out of love, knowing
that I am appointed for the
defense of the gospel.
What then? Only that in every
way, whether in pretense or in
truth, Christ is preached; and in
this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.
Because, I know that this will
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turn out for my deliverance
through your prayer and the supply
of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
according to my earnest expectation
and my hope that in nothing
I shall be ashamed, but that
with all boldness, as always, so
now also Christ will be magnified
in my body, whether it be by life
or by death.
Because to me, to live is Christ,
and to die is gain.
But if I live on in the flesh, this
will mean fruit from my labor; yet
what I shall choose I do not know.
Because, I am hard pressed
between the two, having a desire
to depart and be with Christ,
which is far better.
Nevertheless to abide in the
flesh is more needful for you.
And being confident of this, I
know that I will abide and continue
with you all for your progress
and joy of faith,
that your rejoicing for me may
be more abundant in Jesus Christ
by my coming to you again.
Only let your conduct be worthy
of the gospel of Christ, so that
whether I come and see you or am
absent, I may hear of your affairs,
that you stand fast in one spirit,
with one mind striving together
for the faith of the gospel,
and not in any way terrified
by your adversaries, which is to
them a proof of perdition, but to
you of salvation, and that from
God.
Because, to you it has been
granted on behalf of Christ, not
only to believe on Him, but also to
suffer for His sake,
having the same conflict which
you saw in me and now hear is in
me.
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Therefore if there is any consolation
in Christ, if any comfort
of love, if any fellowship of the
Spirit, if any aff ection and mercy,
fulfi ll my joy by being likeminded,
having the same love,
being of one accord, of one mind.
Let nothing be done through
strife or vain glory, but in lowliness
of mind let each esteem
others better than themselves.
Let each of you look out not only
for his own interests, but each one
also for the interests of others.
Let this mind be in you which
was also in Christ Jesus,
who, being in the form of God,
did not consider it robbery to be
equal with God,
but made Himself of no reputation,
and took on Himself the
form of a servant, and was made
in the likeness of men.
And being found in appearance
as a man, He humbled Himself
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and became obedient to death,
even the death of the cross.
Therefore God also has highly
exalted Him and given Him a
name which is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of those in
heaven, and of those on earth, and
of those under the earth,
and that every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Therefore, my beloved, as you
have always obeyed, not as in
my presence only, but now much
more in my absence, work out
your own salvation with reverence
and trembling;
because, it is God who works in
you both to will and to do for His
good pleasure.
Do all things without complaining
and disputing,
that you may be blameless and
harmless, the sons of God without
fault in the midst of a crooked and
perverse generation, among whom
you shine as lights in the world,
holding forth the word of life,
so that I may rejoice in the day of
Christ that I have not run in vain
or labored in vain.
Yes, and if I am being off ered on
the sacrifi ce and service of your
faith, I am glad and rejoice with
you all.
For the same reason you also
be glad and rejoice with me.
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to
send Timothy to you shortly, that
I also may be encouraged when I
know your state.
Because I have no one likeminded,
who will naturally care
for your state.
Because all seek their own,
not the things which are Jesus
Christ’s.
But you know his proven character,
that like a son with his father,
he served with me in the gospel.
Therefore I hope to send him at
once, as soon as I see how it will
go with me.
But I trust in the Lord that I
myself shall also come shortly.
Yet I considered it necessary
to send to you Epaphroditus, my
brother, fellow worker, and fellow
soldier, but your messenger and
he who ministered to my need;
since he was longing for you all,
and was full of heaviness, because
you had heard that he had been
sick.
Because, indeed he was sick
almost to death; but God had
mercy on him, and not only on
him but on me also, lest I should
have sorrow upon sorrow.
Therefore I sent him the more
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eagerly, that when you see him
again you may rejoice, and I may
be less sorrowful.
Receive him therefore in the
Lord with all gladness, and hold
such men in esteem;
because for the work of
Christ he came close to death,
not regarding his life, to supply
what was lacking in your service
toward me.
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Finally, my brethren, rejoice
in the Lord. For me to write the
same things to you is not tedious,
but for you it is safe.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil
workers, beware of the mutilation!
Because, we are the circumcision,
who worship God in the
Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and
have no confi dence in the fl esh,
though I also might have confi -
dence in the fl esh. If anyone else
thinks he may have confi dence in
the fl esh, I more so:
circumcised the eighth day, of
the stock of Israel, of the tribe
of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the
Hebrews; concerning the law, a
Pharisee;
concerning zeal, persecuting
the church; concerning the righteousness
which is in the law,
blameless.
But what things were gain to me,
these I have counted loss for Christ.
Yet indeed I also count all things
as loss for the excellence of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my
Lord, for whom I have suff ered the
loss of all things, and count them
as manure, that I may gain Christ
and be found in Him, not having
my own righteousness, which
is from the law, but that which is
through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is from God
by faith;
that I may know Him and the
power of His resurrection, and
the fellowship of His suff erings,
being conformed to His death,
if, by any means, I may attain to
the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already attained,
or am already perfected; but I
press on, that I may apprehend
that for which Christ Jesus has
also laid hold of me.
Brethren, I do not count myself
to have attained; but this one
thing I do, forgetting those things
which are behind and reaching
forward to those things which are
ahead,
I press toward the goal for the
prize of the upward call of God in
Christ Jesus.
Therefore let us, as many as are
perfect, have this mind; and if in
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anything you think otherwise,
God will reveal even this to you.
Nevertheless, to the degree
that we have already attained, let
us walk by the same rule, let us be
of the same mind.
Brethren, join in following my
example, and note those who
so walk, as you have us for an
example.
Because many walk, of whom I
have told you often, and now tell
you even weeping, that they are
the enemies of the cross of Christ:
whose end is destruction,
whose god is their belly, and whose
glory is in their shame, who mind
earthly things.
Because, our citizenship is
in heaven, from which we also
eagerly wait for the Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ,
who will transform our vile
body that it may be conformed
to His glorious body, according
to the working by which He is
able even to subdue all things to
Himself.
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Therefore, my greatly beloved
and longed for brethren, my joy
and crown, so stand fast in the
Lord, my greatly beloved.
I implore Euodia and I implore
Syntyche to be of the same mind
in the Lord.
And I urge you also, true companion,
help those women who
labored with me in the gospel,
with Clement also, and the rest of
my fellow workers, whose names
are in the Book of Life.
Rejoice in the Lord always. And
again I will say, rejoice!
Let your gentleness be known to
all men. The Lord is at hand.
Be anxious for nothing, but in
everything by prayer and supplication,
with thanksgiving, let your
requests be made known to God;
and the peace of God, which
surpasses all understanding, will
guard your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus.
Finally, brethren, whatever
things are true, whatever things
are honest, whatever things are
just, whatever things are pure,
whatever things are lovely, whatever
things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is
anything praiseworthy, meditate
on these things.
Those things which you learned
and received and heard and saw
in me, these do also, and the God
of peace will be with you.
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly
that now at last your care for me
has fl ourished again; though you
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surely did care, but you lacked
opportunity.
Not that I speak in regard to
need, because I have learned in
whatever state I am, to be content
with it:
I know both how to be abased,
and I know how to abound.
Everywhere and in all things I
have learned both to be full and
to be hungry, both to abound and
to suff er need.
I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me.
Nevertheless you have done well
that you shared in my affl iction.
Now you Philippians know
also that in the beginning of the
gospel, when I departed from
Macedonia, no church shared
with me concerning giving and
receiving but you alone.
Because even in Thessalonica
you sent aid once and again for
my necessities.
Not because I desire the gift,
but I desire the fruit that abounds
to your account.
But I have all and abound. I
am full, having received from
Epaphroditus the things that were
sent from you, a sweet smelling
aroma, an acceptable sacrifi ce,
well pleasing to God.
And my God will supply all your
need according to His riches in
glory by Christ Jesus.
Now to our God and Father be
glory forever and ever. Amen.
Greet every saint in Christ
Jesus. The brethren who are with
me greet you.
All the saints greet you, but
especially those who are of
Caesar’s household.
The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you all. Amen.
(It was written to the Philippians from Rome, by Epaphroditus.)
THE LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
COLOSSIANS
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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
by the will of God, and Timothy
our brother,
To the saints and faithful brethren
in Christ who are at Colosse:
Grace be to you and peace from
God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
We give thanks to the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
always praying for you,
since we heard of your faith in
Christ Jesus, and of the love that
you have for all the saints;
because of the hope which is laid
up for you in heaven, of which you
heard before in the word of the
truth of the gospel,
which has come to you, as it has
also in all the world, and is bearing
fruit, as it is also among you
since the day you heard about
it, and knew the grace of God in
truth;
as you also learned from
Epaphras, our dear fellow servant,
who is a faithful minister of
Christ on your behalf,
who also declared to us your
love in the Spirit.
For this reason we also, since
the day we heard it, do not cease
to pray for you, and to desire that
you may be fi lled with the knowledge
of His will in all wisdom and
spiritual understanding;
that you may walk worthy
of the Lord, fully pleasing Him,
being fruitful in every good work
and increasing in the knowledge
of God;
strengthened with all might,
according to His glorious power,
for all patience and longsuff ering
with joy;
giving thanks to the Father
who has qualifi ed us to be partakers
in the inheritance of the
saints in the light,
who has delivered us from the
power of darkness and translated
us into the kingdom of His
beloved Son,
in whom we have redemption
through His blood even the forgiveness
of sins.
He is the image of the invisible
God, the fi rstborn over all
creation.
Because, all things were created
by Him that are in heaven
and that are on earth, visible and
invisible, whether they are thrones
or dominions or principalities or
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powers. All things were created
by Him and for Him.
And He is before all things, and
by Him all things consist.
And He is the head of the body,
the church, who is the beginning,
the fi rstborn from the dead,
that in all things He may have the
preeminence.
Because, it pleased the Father
that in Him all the fullness
should dwell,
and by Him, having made peace
through the blood of His cross, to
reconcile all things to Himself, by
Him, whether things on earth or
things in heaven.
And you, who once were alienated
and enemies in your mind
by wicked works, yet now He has
reconciled
in the body of His fl esh through
death, to present you holy, and
blameless, and above reproach in
His sight,
if you continue in the faith,
grounded and steadfast, and are
not moved away from the hope
of the gospel which you heard,
and which was preached to every
creature under heaven, of which
I, Paul, became a minister.
I now rejoice in my suff erings
for you, and fi ll up in my fl esh
what is lacking in the affl ictions
of Christ, for the sake of His body,
which is the church,
of which I became a minister
according to the stewardship
from God which was given to me
for you, to fulfi ll the word of God,
even the mystery which has
been hidden from ages and from
generations, but now has been
revealed to His saints.
To them God desired to make
known what are the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles: which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory.
Him we preach, warning every
man and teaching every man in
all wisdom, that we may present
every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
To this end I also labor, striving
according to His working which
works in me mightily.
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Because, I want you to know
what a great confl ict I have for
you and for those in Laodicea, and
for as many as have not seen my
face in the fl esh,
that their hearts may be
encouraged, being knit together
in love, and attaining to all the
riches of the full assurance of
understanding, to the knowledge
of the mystery of God, both of the
Father and of Christ,
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in whom are hidden all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge.
Now this I say lest anyone
should deceive you with persuasive
words.
Because, though I am absent
in the fl esh, yet I am with you in
the spirit, rejoicing to see your
order and the fi rmness of your
faith in Christ.
Therefore, as you have received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in
Him,
rooted and built up in Him and
established in the faith, just as
you have been taught, abounding
in it with thanksgiving.
Beware lest anyone rob you
through philosophy and vain
deceit, according to the tradition
of men, according to the basic
principles of the world, and not
according to Christ.
Because, in Him dwells all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily;
and you are complete in Him,
who is the head of all principality
and power.
In Him you were also circumcised
with the circumcision made
without hands, by putting off the
body of the sins of the fl esh, by
the circumcision of Christ,
buried with Him in baptism,
in which you also were raised
with Him through the faith of the
working of God, who has raised
Him from the dead.
And you, being dead in your
sins and the uncircumcision of
your fl esh, He has made alive
together with Him, having forgiven
you all trespasses,
having erased the written
record of commands that were
against us, which was contrary
to us, and took it out of the way,
nailing it to the cross.
Having disarmed principalities
and powers, He made a spectacle
of them, triumphing over them
in it.
Therefore let no man judge you
in food or in drink, or regarding a
holy day, or of the new moon, or
of the sabbath days,
which are a shadow of things
to come, but the body is of Christ.
Let no one rob you of your reward,
delighting in false humility and worship
of angels, meddling into those
things which he has not seen, vainly
puff ed up by his fl eshly mind,
And not clinging to the Head,
from whom all the body, nourished
and knit together by joints
and ligaments, increases with the
increase from God.
Therefore, if you are dead with
Christ from the basic principles of
the world, why, as though living
in the world, are you subject to
regulations,
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(“Do not touch, do not taste, do
not handle,”
which all concern things which
perish with the using) according
to the commandments and doctrines
of men?
These things certainly have
an appearance of wisdom in self
imposed worship and humility,
and neglecting of the body, but
have no value against the indulgence
of the fl esh.
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If then you are risen with Christ,
seek those things which are
above, where Christ is sitting at
the right hand of God.
Set your aff ections on things
above, not on things on the earth.
Because, you are dead, and your
life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ who is our life
appears, then you also will appear
with Him in glory.
Therefore put to death your
members which are on the earth;
fornication, uncleanness, inordinate
passion, evil desire, and
covetousness, which is idolatry.
Because of these things the
wrath of God is coming upon the
children of disobedience,
in which you also once walked
when you lived in them.
But now you also put off all
these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy,
fi lthy language out of
your mouth.
Do not lie to one another, seeing
you have put off the old man with
his deeds,
and have put on the new man,
who is renewed in knowledge
according to the image of Him
who created him,
where there is neither Greek
nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised,
Barbarian, Scythian,
slave nor free: but Christ is all and
in all.
Therefore, as the elect of God,
holy and beloved, put on heartfelt
compassion, kindness, humility
of mind, meekness, longsuff ering;
bearing with one another, and
forgiving one another, if anyone
has a complaint against another;
just as Christ forgave you, so you
do likewise.
And above all these things
put on love, which is the bond of
perfection.
And let the peace of God rule
in your hearts, to which you also
were called in one body; and be
thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in
you richly in all wisdom, teaching
and admonishing one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing with grace in your
hearts to the Lord.
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And whatever you do in word
or deed, do all in the name of the
Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God
and the Father by Him.
Wives, submit to your own husbands,
as is acceptable in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives, and
do not be bitter against them.
Children, obey your parents
in all things, because this is well
pleasing to the Lord.
Fathers, do not provoke your
children to anger, lest they become
discouraged.
Servants, obey your masters
according to the fl esh in all
things, not with eye service, as
men pleasers, but in singleness of
heart, reverencing God.
And whatever you do, do it with
all your heart, as to the Lord and
not to men,
knowing that from the Lord
you will receive the reward of the
inheritance; because you serve
the Lord Christ.
But he who does wrong will be
repaid for the wrong that he has
done, and there is no personal
favoritism.
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Masters, give to your servants
that which is just and balanced,
knowing that you also have a
Master in heaven.
Continue in prayer, and watch in
it with thanksgiving;
meanwhile praying also for us,
that God would open to us a door
for the word, to speak the mystery
of Christ, for which I am also
in chains,
that I may make it manifest, as I
ought to speak.
Walk in wisdom toward those
who are outside, redeeming the
time.
Let your speech always be with
grace, seasoned with salt, that
you may know how you ought to
answer each person.
Tychicus, who is a beloved
brother, a faithful minister and
fellow servant in the Lord, will
tell you about my state of aff airs
whom I have sent to you for
the same purpose, that he might
know your circumstances, and
comfort your hearts,
with Onesimus, a faithful and
beloved brother, who is one of
you. They will make known to you
all things that are happening here.
Aristarchus my fellow prisoner
greets you, with Mark, the sister’s
son of Barnabas, (about whom
you received instructions: if he
comes to you, receive him),
and Jesus, who is called Justus,
who are of the circumcision.
These are my only fellow workers
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for the kingdom of God who have
proven to be a comfort to me.
Epaphras, who is one of you,
a servant of Christ, greets you,
always laboring fervently for you
in prayers, that you may stand
perfect and complete in all the
will of God.
Because, I bear him record, that
he has a great zeal for you, and
those who are in Laodicea, and
those in Hierapolis.
Luke, the beloved physician
and Demas greet you.
Greet the brethren who are in
Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the
church that is in his house.
Now when this letter is read
among you, see that it is read in
the church of the Laodiceans also,
and that you likewise read the letter
from Laodicea.
And say to Archippus, “Take
heed to the ministry that you
have received in the Lord, that
you fulfill it.”
The salutation of Paul, by my
own hand. Remember my chains.
Grace be with you. Amen.
(Written from Rome to the Colossians, by Tychicus and Omesimus.)
THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
THESSALONIANS
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Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to
the church of the Thessalonians
which is in God the Father and in
the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be
to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We always give thanks to God
for you all, making mention of
you in our prayers,
remembering without ceasing
your work of faith, labor of love,
and patience of hope in our Lord
Jesus Christ in the sight of God
even our Father,
knowing, beloved brethren,
your election by God.
Because, our gospel did not
come to you in word only, but also
in power, and in the Holy Spirit
and in much assurance, as you
know what sort of men we were
among you for your sake.
And you became followers of us
and of the Lord, having received
the word in much affliction, with
joy of the Holy Spirit,
so that you were examples to
all who believe in Macedonia and
Achaia.
Because, from you the word of
the Lord sounded forth, not only
in Macedonia and Achaia, but also
in every place your faith towards
God is proclaimed, so that we do
not need to say anything.
Because, they themselves
declare concerning us what sort
of entry we had to you, and how
you turned to God from idols to
serve the living and true God,
and to wait for His Son from
heaven, whom He raised from the
dead, even Jesus, who delivered us
from the wrath to come.
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Because, you yourselves know
brethren, that our coming to you
was not in vain.
But even after we had suffered
beforehand and were disgraced
at Philippi, as you know, we were
bold in our God to speak to you the
gospel of God in much conflict.
Because, our exhortation did
not come from deception, nor of
uncleanness, nor in trickery.
But as we have been approved
by God to be entrusted with the
gospel, even so we speak, not as
pleasing men, but God, who tests
our hearts.
Because, neither at any time did
we use flattering words, as you
know, nor a cloak of covetousness,
God is witness.
Nor did we seek glory from
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men, either from you or from
others, when we might have been
burdensome, as the apostles of
Christ.
But we were gentle among you,
even as a nursing mother cherishes
her children.
So affectionately longing for
you, we were willing to impart
to you, not just the gospel of God,
but also our own souls, because
you were dear to us.
Because you remember, brethren,
our labor and toil; because,
laboring night and day, since we
did not want to be a burden to
any of you, we preached to you
the gospel of God.
You are witnesses, and God
also, how holy and justly and
blamelessly we behaved ourselves
among you who believe;
as you know how we exhorted
and comforted and commanded
every one of you, as a father does
to his children,
that you would walk worthy of
God, who has called you into His
kingdom and glory.
For this reason also we thank
God without ceasing, because
when you received the word of
God which you heard from us,
you did not receive it as the word
of men, but as it is in truth, the
word of God, which also effectually
works in you who believe.
Because you, brethren, became
followers of the churches of God
which in Judea are in Christ Jesus.
Because, you also have suffered
similar things from your own
countrymen, just as they have
from the Jews,
who killed both the Lord Jesus
and their own prophets, and have
persecuted us; and they do not
please God, and are contrary to
all men,
forbidding us to speak to the
Gentiles that they may be saved,
to always fill up their sins; because
of which the wrath is coming
upon them to the uttermost.
But we, brethren, being taken
away from you for a short time in
presence, not in heart, endeavored
more eagerly to see your
face with great longing.
Therefore we wanted to come
to you, even I, Paul, time and
again, but Satan hindered us.
Because what is our hope, or
joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not
even you in the presence of our
Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?
Because you are our glory and
joy.
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Therefore when we could no
longer endure it, we thought it
good to be left in Athens alone,
and sent Timothy, our brother
and minister of God, and our fellow
laborer in the gospel of Christ,
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to establish you and to encourage
you concerning your faith,
that no one should be shaken
by these affl ictions; because you
yourselves know that we are
appointed to this.
Because indeed, we told you
before when we were with you that
we would suff er tribulation, just as
it came to pass, and you know.
Because of this reason, when I
could no longer endure it, I sent
to know your faith, lest by some
means the tempter had tempted
you, and our labor might be in
vain.
But now when Timothy came
to us from you, and brought us
good news of your faith and love,
and that you always have good
remembrance of us, earnestly
desiring to see us, as we also to see
you,
therefore, brethren, in all our
affl iction and distress we were
comforted concerning you by
your faith.
Because now we live, if you
stand fi rmly in the Lord.
Because, what thanks can we
off er back to God for you, for all
the joy with which we rejoice for
your sake before our God,
night and day praying exceedingly
that we may see your face
and would perfect that which is
lacking in your faith?
Now may God Himself even our
Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
direct our way to you.
And the Lord make you to
increase and abound in love
towards one another, and
towards all men, just as we do
towards you,
so that He may establish your
hearts blameless in holiness
before God, even our Father, at
the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ with all His saints.
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Furthermore then brethren, we
urge you and exhort you by the
Lord Jesus, that just as you have
received from us how you ought
to walk and to please God, that you
should abound more and more.
Because, you know what commandments
we gave you by the
Lord Jesus.
Because, this is the will of God,
your sanctifi cation: that you should
abstain from sexual immorality;
that every one of you should
know how to possess his vessel in
sanctifi cation and honor,
not in the passion of lust, just as
the Gentiles who do not know God;
that no one should take advantage
of and defraud his brother
in any matter, because the Lord is
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the avenger of all such, as we have
also forewarned you and testified.
Because, God has not called us
to uncleanness, but to holiness.
Therefore he who despises,
does not despise man, but God,
who has also given to us His Holy
Spirit.
But concerning brotherly love
you do not need that I should
write to you, because you yourselves
are taught by God to love
one another;
and indeed you do so toward
all the brethren who are in all
Macedonia. But we urge you,
brethren, that you increase more
and more;
that you also study to be quiet,
and to do your own business, and
to work with your own hands, as
we commanded you,
that you may walk honestly
toward those who are outside,
and that you may lack nothing.
But I do not want you to be
ignorant, brethren, concerning
those who are asleep, that you do
not mourn just like others who
have no hope.
Because, if we believe that Jesus
died and rose again, in the same
way, God will bring with Him
those who sleep in Jesus.
Because, we say this to you by
the word of the Lord, that we who
are alive and remain until the
coming of the Lord will not go
before those who are asleep.
Because, the Lord Himself
will descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of an archangel,
and with the trumpet of
God. Then the dead in Christ will
rise first.
Then we who are alive and
remain will be caught up together
with them in the clouds to meet
the Lord in the air. And then we
will always be with the Lord.
Therefore comfort one another
with these words.
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But concerning the times and
the seasons, brethren, you do not
have any need that I write to you.
Because, you yourselves know
perfectly that the day of the Lord
comes as a thief in the night.
Because, when they say, “Peace
and safety!” then sudden destruction
comes upon them, like labor
pains upon a pregnant woman.
And they will not escape.
But you, brethren, are not in
darkness, that this Day should
overtake you like a thief.
You are all the children of light,
and the children of the day, we are
not of the night, nor of darkness.
Therefore let us not sleep, as
others do, but let us watch and be
sober.
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Because, those who sleep, sleep
at night, and those who are drunk
are drunk at night.
But let us who are of the day be
sober, putting on the breastplate
of faith and love, and as a helmet,
the hope of salvation.
Because, God has not appointed
us to wrath, but to obtain salvation
by our Lord Jesus Christ,
who died for us, that whether
we wake or sleep, we should live
together with Him.
Therefore comfort each other
and edify one another, just as you
also are doing.
And we urge you, brethren, to
recognize those who labor among
you, and are over you in the Lord
and advise you,
and to esteem them very highly
in love for their work’s sake. And
be at peace among yourselves.
Now we exhort you, brethren,
warn those who are disorderly,
comfort the feebleminded, support
the weak, be patient towards
everyone.
See that no one renders evil for
evil to anyone, but always pursue
that which is good both for yourselves,
and for everyone.
Rejoice always,
pray without ceasing,
in everything give thanks;
because this is the will of God in
Christ Jesus concerning you.
Do not quench the Spirit.
Do not despise prophecies.
Test all things; hold firmly to
that which is good.
Abstain from every appearance
of evil.
And may the God of peace sanctify
you completely; and I ask God
that your entire spirit, soul, and
body be preserved blameless at
the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
He who calls you is faithful,
who also will do it.
Brethren, pray for us.
Greet all the brethren with a
holy kiss.
I command you by the Lord
that this letter be read to all the
holy brethren.
The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you. Amen.
(The fi rst letter to the Thessalonians was written from Athens.)
THE SECOND LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
THESSALONIANS
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Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to
the church of the Thessalonians
in God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ:
Grace to you and peace from
God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
We are bound to thank God
always for you, brethren, as it is
fi tting, because your faith grows
exceptionally, and the love of
every one of you all abounds
toward each other,
so that we ourselves boast about
you in the churches of God for
your patience and faith in all your
persecutions and affl ictions that
you endure,
which is clear evidence of the
righteous judgment of God, that
you may be counted worthy of
the kingdom of God, for which
you also suff er;
seeing it is a righteous thing
with God to repay with affl iction
those who trouble you,
and you who are troubled rest
with us, when the Lord Jesus will
be revealed from heaven with His
mighty angels,
in fl aming fi re taking vengeance
on those who do not know God,
and who do not obey the gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
These will be punished with
everlasting destruction from the
presence of the Lord, and from
the glory of His power,
when He comes in that day to
be glorifi ed in His saints, and to
be admired among all those who
believe, because our testimony
among you was believed.
Therefore we also pray always
for you, that our God would count
you worthy of this calling, and
fulfi ll all the good pleasure of His
goodness, and the work of faith
with power,
that the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ may be glorifi ed in you,
and you in Him, according to the
grace of our God and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
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Now brethren, concerning the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and concerning our gathering
together to Him, we urge you,
not to be suddenly shaken in
mind or to be troubled, either by
a spirit or by a word, or by a letter
as if from us, as though the Day of
Christ is at hand.
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Let no one deceive you by any
means; because, that Day will
not come unless a falling away
comes fi rst, and the man of sin is
revealed, the son of perdition,
who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called God or that
is worshiped, so that he sits as
God in the temple of God, declaring
that he himself is God.
Do you not remember that when
I was still with you, I told you
these things?
And now you know what is
restraining that he might be
revealed in his time.
Because, the mystery of iniquity
is at work already; only He who
now restrains will restrain, until
He is taken out of the way.
And then that wicked one will
be revealed, whom the Lord will
consume with the Spirit of His
mouth and will destroy with the
brightness of His coming.
Even him, whose coming is
according to the working of Satan
with all power, signs, and lying
wonders,
and with all unrighteous deception
amongst those who perish,
because they did not receive the
love of the truth, that they might
be saved.
And for this reason God will
send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie,
that they all might be damned
who did not believe the truth but
had pleasure in unrighteousness.
But we are bound to give thanks
to God always for you, brethren
beloved by the Lord, because
God has chosen you from the
beginning for salvation through
sanctifi cation of the Spirit and
belief of the truth,
to which He called you by our
gospel, for the obtaining of the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, brethren, stand fi rm,
and hold the traditions which you
were taught, whether by word or
our letter.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ
Himself, and God, even our Father,
who has loved us and has given us
everlasting help and good hope
through grace,
encourage your hearts and
establish you in every good word
and work.
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Finally, brethren, pray for us,
that the word of the Lord may
have a free course, and be glorified,
just as it is with you,
and that we may be delivered
from unreasonable and wicked
men; because not everyone has
faith.
But the Lord is faithful, who will
establish you and keep you from
evil.
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And we have confidence in the
Lord concerning you, both that
you do and will do the things that
we command you.
Now may the Lord direct your
hearts into the love of God and
into the perseverance for Christ.
Now we command you, brethren,
in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that you withdraw yourselves
from every brother who
walks disorderly and not according
to the tradition which he
received from us.
Because you yourselves know
how you ought to follow us,
because we were not disorderly
among you;
Neither did we eat anyone’s
bread free of charge, but worked
with labor and toil night and day,
that we might not be a burden to
any of you,
not because we do not have
authority, but to make of ourselves
an example of how you
should follow us.
Because, even when we were
with you, we commanded you
this: That if anyone will not work,
neither should he eat.
Because, we hear that there are
some who walk among you in a
disorderly manner, not working
at all, but are busybodies.
Now those who are such we
command and exhort by our Lord
Jesus Christ that they work in quietness
and eat their own bread.
But as for you, brethren, do not
become weary in doing good.
And if anyone does not obey
our word in this letter, note that
person, and do not keep company
with him, that he may be
ashamed.
Yet count him not as an enemy,
but instruct him as a brother.
Now may the Lord of peace
Himself give you peace always in
every way. The Lord be with you
all.
The salutation of Paul with my
own hand, which is confi rmation
in every letter; so I write.
The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you all. Amen.
(The second letter to the Thessalonians was written from Athens.)
THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO
TIMOTHY
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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
by the commandment of God our
Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who is our hope,
To Timothy, my own son in the
faith: Grace, mercy, and peace
from God our Father and Jesus
Christ our Lord.
As I urged you when I went into
Macedonia, remain in Ephesus
that you may command some that
they teach no other doctrine,
nor give heed to fables and endless
genealogies, which minister
questions rather than godly edifi -
cation which is in faith, so do.
Now the purpose of the commandment
is love from a pure
heart, from a good conscience, and
from sincere faith,
from which some, having
strayed, have turned aside to idle
talking,
desiring to be teachers of the
law, understanding neither what
they say nor the things which
they affi rm.
But we know that the law is good
if one uses it lawfully,
knowing this: that the law is not
made for a righteous person, but
for the lawless and disobedient,
for the ungodly and for sinners,
for the unholy and profane, for
murderers of fathers and murderers
of mothers, for manslayers,
for fornicators, for those who
defi le themselves with mankind,
for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers,
and if there is any other
thing that is contrary to sound
doctrine,
according to the glorious gospel
of the blessed God which was
committed to my trust.
And I thank Christ Jesus our
Lord who has enabled me, because
He counted me faithful, putting
me into the ministry,
who was formerly a blasphemer,
a persecutor, and an abusive man;
but I obtained mercy because I did
it ignorantly in unbelief.
And the grace of our Lord was
exceedingly abundant, with faith
and love which are in Christ Jesus.
This is a faithful saying and worthy
of all acceptance, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save
sinners, of whom I am chief.
However, for this reason I
obtained mercy, that in me fi rst
Jesus Christ might show forth
all longsuff ering, as a pattern to
those who are going to believe on
Him for everlasting life.
Now to the King eternal,
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immortal, invisible, to God who
alone is wise, be honor and glory
forever and ever. Amen.
This command I commit to
you, son Timothy, according to
the prophecies previously made
concerning you, that by them you
may wage the good warfare,
holding to faith and a good
conscience, which some having
rejected, concerning the faith
have suff ered shipwreck,
of whom are Hymenaeus and
Alexander, whom I delivered to
Satan that they may learn not to
blaspheme.
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Therefore I exhort fi rst of all
that supplications, prayers, intercessions,
and giving of thanks be
made for all men,
for kings and for all who are in
authority, that we may lead a
quiet and peaceable life in all godliness
and honesty.
Because, this is good and acceptable
in the sight of God our Savior,
who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of
the truth.
Because there is one God and one
Mediator between God and men,
the Man Christ Jesus,
who gave Himself a ransom for
all, to be testifi ed in due time,
because of which I was appointed
a preacher and an apostle, I am
speaking the truth in Christ and
not lying, a teacher of the Gentiles
in faith and truth.
I desire therefore that the
men pray everywhere, lifting up
holy hands, without wrath and
doubting;
in like manner also, that the
women adorn themselves in modest
apparel, with propriety and
moderation, not with braided
hair or gold or pearls or costly
clothing,
but, which is proper for
women professing godliness,
with good works.
Let the woman learn in silence
with all submission.
And I do not permit the woman
to teach or to have authority over
the man, but to be in silence.
Because Adam was formed fi rst,
then Eve.
And Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived,
fell into transgression.
Nevertheless she will be saved
in childbearing if they continue in
faith, love, and holiness, with self
control.
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This is a faithful saying: If a man
desires the position of a bishop, he
desires a good work.
A bishop then must be blameless,
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the husband of one wife, temperate,
sober, of good behavior, given
to hospitality, able to teach;
not given to wine, not violent,
not greedy for money, but gentle,
not quarrelsome, not covetous;
one who rules his own house
well, having his children in submission
with all reverence
(because, if a man does not know
how to rule his own house, how will
he take care of the church of God?);
not a novice, lest being puff ed
up with pride he fall into the same
condemnation as the devil.
Moreover he must have a good
testimony among those who are
outside, lest he fall into reproach
and the snare of the devil.
Likewise deacons must be reverent,
not double tongued, not
slaves to wine bingeing, not
greedy for money,
holding the mystery of the faith
with a pure conscience.
But let these also fi rst be tested;
then let them serve as deacons,
being found blameless.
Likewise, their wives must be
reverent, not slanderers, sober,
faithful in all things.
Let deacons be the husbands of
one wife, ruling their children and
their own houses well.
Because, those who have served
well as deacons obtain for themselves
a good standing and great
boldness in the faith which is in
Christ Jesus.
These things I write to you,
though I hope to come to you
shortly;
but if I am delayed, so that you
may know how you ought to conduct
yourself in the house of God,
which is the church of the living
God, the pillar and ground of the
truth.
And without controversy great is
the mystery of godliness: God was
manifested in the fl esh, justifi ed in
the Spirit, seen by angels, preached
among the Gentiles, believed on in
the world, received up into glory.
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Now the Spirit expressly says
that in latter times some will
depart from the faith, giving heed
to seducing spirits and doctrines
of demons,
speaking lies in hypocrisy, having
their own conscience seared
with a hot iron,
forbidding to marry, and commanding
to abstain from foods which
God has created to be received with
thanksgiving by those who believe
and know the truth.
Because, every creature of God is
good, and nothing is to be refused
if it is received with thanksgiving;
because it is sanctifi ed by the
word of God and prayer.
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If you put the brethren in
remembrance of these things, you
will be a good minister of Jesus
Christ, nourished in the words
of faith and of the good doctrine
which you have carefully pursued.
But reject profane and old wives’
fables, and instead exercise yourself
toward godliness.
Because, bodily exercise profi ts
a little, but godliness is profi table
for all things, having promise of
the life that now is and of that
which is to come.
This is a faithful saying and worthy
of all acceptance.
Because, to this end we both
labor and suff er reproach, because
we trust in the living God, who is
the Savior of all men, especially of
those who believe.
These things command and
teach.
Let no one despise your youth,
but be an example to the believers
in word, in conduct, in love, in
spirit, in faith, in purity.
Until I come, give attention
to reading, to exhortation, to
doctrine.
Do not neglect the gift that is
in you, which was given to you by
prophecy with the laying on of
the hands of the eldership.
Meditate on these things; give
yourself entirely to them, that your
progress may be evident to all.
Take heed to yourself and to
the doctrine. Continue in them,
because in doing this you will save
both yourself and those who hear
you.
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Do not rebuke an older man, but
exhort him as a father, younger
men as brethren,
older women as mothers, and
younger women as sisters, with
all purity.
Honor widows who are truly
widows.
But if any widow has children
or grandchildren, let them fi rst
learn to show piety at home and to
repay their parents; because, this
is good and acceptable before God.
Now she who is truly a widow,
and desolate, trusts in God and
continues in supplications and
prayers night and day.
But she who lives in pleasure is
dead while she lives.
And these things give in commands,
that they may be blameless.
But if anyone does not provide
for his own, and especially for
those of his household, he has
denied the faith and is worse than
an unbeliever.
Do not let a widow under sixty
years old be taken into the number,
and not unless she has been
the wife of one man,
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well reported for good works:
if she has brought up children, if
she has lodged strangers, if she has
washed the saints’ feet, if she has
relieved the affl icted, if she has diligently
followed every good work.
But refuse the younger widows;
because, when they have, begun
to grow immoral against Christ,
they desire to marry,
having damnation because they
have cast off their fi rst faith.
And besides they learn to be idle,
wandering about from house to
house, and not only idle but also
gossips and busybodies, speaking
things which they ought not.
Therefore I desire that the
younger women marry, bear children,
manage the house, give no
opportunity to the adversary to
speak reproachfully.
Because, some have already
turned aside after Satan.
If any believing man or woman
has widows, let them relieve
them, and do not let the church
be burdened, that it may relieve
those who are truly widows.
Let the older men who rule
well be counted worthy of double
honor, especially those who labor
in the word and doctrine.
Because, the Scripture says,
“You shall not muzzle an ox while
it treads out the grain,” and, “The
laborer is worthy of his wages.”
Do not receive an accusation
against an older man except from
two or three witnesses.
Those who are sinning rebuke
in the presence of all, that others
also may have reverence.
I command you before God and
the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect
angels that you observe these
things without prejudice, doing
nothing with personal favoritism.
Do not lay hands on anyone
hastily, nor be a partaker in other
people’s sins; keep yourself pure.
No longer drink only water, but
use a little grape juice for your
stomach’s sake and your frequent
weaknesses.
Some men’s sins are clearly
evident, preceding them to judgment,
but those of some men
follow afterwards.
Likewise also, the good works of
some are clearly manifest beforehand,
and those that are otherwise
cannot be hidden.
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Let as many servants as are
under the yoke count their own
masters worthy of all honor, so
that the name of God and His doctrine
may not be blasphemed.
And those who have believing
masters, let them not despise them
because they are brethren, but
rather serve them because those
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who are benefi ted are faithful and
beloved. Teach and exhort these
things.
If anyone teaches otherwise
and does not consent to wholesome
words, even the words of
our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the
doctrine which is according to
godliness,
he is proud, knowing nothing,
but is obsessed with disputes
and arguments over words, from
which come envy, strife, reviling,
evil suspicions,
useless disputations of men of
corrupt minds and destitute of
the truth, who suppose that gain
is godliness. From such withdraw
yourself.
Now godliness with contentment
is great gain.
Because, we brought nothing
into this world, and it is certain we
can carry nothing out.
And having food and clothing,
with these we should be content.
But those who desire to be rich
fall into temptation and a snare,
and into many foolish and harmful
lusts which drown men in
destruction and perdition.
Because, the love of money is
the root of all evil, for which some
have strayed from the faith in
their covetousness, and pierced
themselves through with many
sorrows.
But you, O man of God, fl ee these
things and pursue righteousness,
godliness, faith, love, patience,
meekness.
Fight the good fi ght of faith, lay
hold on eternal life, to which you
were also called and have confessed
a good confession before of
many witnesses.
I command you in the sight of
God who gives life to all things,
and before Christ Jesus who witnessed
a good confession before
Pontius Pilate,
that you keep this commandment
without spot, blameless
until the appearing of our Lord
Jesus Christ,
which He will reveal in His own
timeframe, who is the blessed and
only Potentate, the King of kings
and Lord of lords,
who alone has immortality,
dwelling in unapproachable light,
whom no man has seen or can see,
to whom be honor and everlasting
power. Amen.
Command those who are rich
in this present age not to be arrogant,
nor to trust in uncertain
riches but in the living God, who
gives us richly all things to enjoy.
That they do good, that they be
rich in good works, ready to distribute,
willing to share,
storing up for themselves a
good foundation for the time to
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come, that they may lay hold on
eternal life.
O Timothy! Guard that which
was committed to your trust,
avoiding profane and idle
babblings and contradictions of
what is falsely called science,
by professing it some have
strayed concerning the faith.
Grace be with you. Amen.
(The fi rst to Timothy was written from Laodicea,
which is the largest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.)
THE SECOND LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO
TIMOTHY
CHAPTER
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
by the will of God, according to
the promise of life which is in
Christ Jesus,
To Timothy, my dearly beloved
son. Grace, mercy, and peace from
God the Father and Christ Jesus
our Lord.
I thank God, whom I serve with
a pure conscience, as my forefathers
did, that without ceasing
I remember you in my prayers
night and day,
greatly desiring to see you, being
mindful of your tears, that I may
be fi lled with joy,
when I call to remembrance the
genuine faith that is in you, which
dwelt fi rst in your grandmother
Lois and your mother Eunice, and
I am persuaded is in you also.
Therefore I remind you to stir
up the gift of God which is in you
through the laying on of my hands.
Because, God has not given us
the spirit of fear, but of power and
of love and of a sound mind.
Therefore do not be ashamed of
the testimony of our Lord, nor of
me His prisoner, but share with
me in the affl ictions for the gospel
according to the power of God,
who has saved us and called us
with a holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to His
own purpose and grace which was
given to us in Christ Jesus before
the ages began,
but has now been revealed by
the appearing of our Savior Jesus
Christ, who has abolished death
and brought life and immortality
to light through the gospel,
to which I was appointed
a preacher, an apostle, and a
teacher of the Gentiles.
For this reason I also suff er
these things; nevertheless I am not
ashamed, because I know whom I
have believed and am persuaded
that He is able to keep what I have
committed to Him until that Day.
Hold fast the pattern of sound
words which you have heard from
me, in faith and love which are in
Christ Jesus.
That good thing which was
committed to you, keep by the
Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
This you know, that all those in
Asia have turned away from me,
among whom are Phygellus and
Hermogenes.
The Lord grant mercy to
the household of Onesiphorus,
because he often refreshed me,
and was not ashamed of my chain;
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but when he was in Rome, he
sought me out very diligently and
found me.
The Lord grant to him that he
may fi nd mercy from the Lord in
that Day, and you know very well
how many ways he ministered to
me at Ephesus.
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You therefore, my son, be
strong in the grace that is in
Christ Jesus.
And the things that you have
heard from me among many
witnesses, commit the same to
faithful men who will be able to
teach others also.
You therefore endure hardship
as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
No one engaged in warfare
entangles himself with the aff airs
of this life, that he may please him
who enlisted him as a soldier.
And likewise if anyone competes
in athletics, he is not crowned
unless he competes according to
the rules.
The hardworking farmer must
be fi rst to partake of the crops.
Consider what I say, and may the
Lord give you understanding in all
things.
Remember that Jesus Christ, of
the seed of David, was raised from
the dead according to my gospel,
for which I suff er trouble as
an evildoer, even to the point of
chains; but the word of God is not
bound.
Therefore I endure all things
for the sake of the elect, that they
also may obtain the salvation
which is in Christ Jesus with eternal
glory.
This is a faithful saying: because
if we died with Him, we will also
live with Him.
If we suff er, we will also reign
with Him. If we deny Him, He also
will deny us.
If we are faithless, He remains
faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
Remind them of these things,
commanding them before the Lord
not to strive about words to no
profi t, to the ruin of the hearers.
Study to present yourself
approved to God, a worker who
does not need to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
But shun profane and vain babblings,
because they will increase
to more ungodliness.
And their word will eat like gangrene.
Hymenaeus and Philetus
are of this sort,
who have strayed concerning
the truth, saying that the resurrection
is already past; and they
overthrow the faith of some.
Nevertheless the foundation
of God stands fi rm, having this
seal: “The Lord knows those who
  TIMOTHY
are His,” and, “Let everyone who
names the name of Christ depart
from iniquity.”
But in a great house there are
not only vessels of gold and silver,
but also of wood and clay,
some for honor and some for
dishonor.
Therefore if anyone cleanses
himself from the latter, he will be
a vessel for honor, sanctifi ed and
useful for the Master, and prepared
for every good work.
Flee youthful lusts also; but
pursue righteousness, faith, love,
peace with those who call on the
Lord out of a pure heart.
But avoid foolish and ignorant
disputes, knowing that they generate
strife.
And a servant of the Lord must
not quarrel but be gentle to all
people, able to teach, patient,
in humility correcting those
who are in opposition, if God perhaps
will grant them repentance,
so that they may know the truth,
and that they may come to their
senses and escape the snare of the
devil, having been taken captive
by him to do his will.
CHAPTER
Also know this, that in the last
days perilous times will come:
Because, men will be lovers of
themselves, covetous, boasters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy,
without natural aff ection, covenant
breakers, slanderers, without
self control, brutal, despisers of
those who are good,
traitors, headstrong, haughty,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers
of God,
having a form of godliness but
denying its power. And from such
people turn away!
Because, of this sort are those
who creep into households and
make captives of gullible women
loaded down with sins, led away
by various lusts,
always learning and never able
to come to the knowledge of the
truth.
Now as Jannes and Jambres
resisted Moses, so do these also
resist the truth: men of corrupt
minds, disapproved concerning
the faith;
but they will progress no further,
because their folly will be manifest
to all people, as theirs also was.
But you have fully followed
my doctrine, manner of life, purpose,
faith, longsuff ering, love,
perseverance,
persecutions, affl ictions, which
happened to me at Antioch, at
Iconium, at Lystra, what persecutions
I endured, but the Lord
delivered me out of them all.
TIMOTHY 
Yes, and all who desire to live
godly in Christ Jesus will suff er
persecution.
But evil men and seducers will
grow worse and worse, deceiving
and being deceived.
But you must continue in the
things which you have learned
and been assured of, knowing from
whom you have learned them,
and that from childhood you
have known the Holy Scriptures,
which are able to make you wise
for salvation through faith which
is in Christ Jesus.
All Scripture is given by inspiration
of God, and is profi table
for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in
righteousness,
that the man of God may be
perfect, thoroughly equipped for
every good work.
CHAPTER
I command you therefore before
God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who
will judge the living and the dead
at His appearing and His kingdom:
Preach the word! Be ready in season
and out of season. Convince,
rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering
and doctrine.
Because, the time will come
when they will not endure sound
doctrine, but according to their
own desires, they will heap up for
themselves teachers, having itching
ears,
and they will turn their ears
away from the truth, and will be
turned aside to fables.
But you be watchful in all things,
endure affl ictions, do the work of
an evangelist, make your ministry
complete.
Because, I am now ready to be
off ered, and the time of my departure
is at hand.
I have fought the good fi ght, I
have fi nished my race, I have kept
the faith.
After this, there is laid up for me
the crown of righteousness, which
the Lord, the righteous Judge, will
give me at that Day, and not to me
only but also to all who love His
appearing.
Be diligent to come to me quickly;
because Demas has forsaken
me, having loved this present
world, and has departed for
Thessalonica, Crescens for Galatia,
Titus for Dalmatia.
Only Luke is with me. Get Mark
and bring him with you, because
he is profi table to me for the
ministry.
And Tychicus I have sent to
Ephesus.
When you come, bring the cloak
with you that I left with Carpus at
Troas, and the books, but especially
the parchments.
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Alexander the coppersmith did
me much evil. May the Lord repay
him according to his works.
You also must beware of him,
because he has greatly resisted
our words.
At my fi rst defense no one stood
with me, but everyone forsook
me. I ask God that it may not be
charged against them.
But the Lord stood with me and
strengthened me, so that through
me the preaching might be fully
known, and that all the Gentiles
might hear. Also I was delivered
out of the mouth of the lion.
And the Lord will deliver me
from every evil work and will
preserve me for His heavenly
kingdom. To Him be glory forever
and ever. Amen!
Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the
household of Onesiphorus.
Erastus stayed in Corinth,
but Trophimus I have left in
Miletus sick.
Do your utmost to come before
winter. Eubulus greets you, as
well as Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and
all the brethren.
The Lord Jesus Christ be with
your spirit. Grace be with you.
Amen.
(The second letter to Timothy, ordained the fi rst bishop of the church of the Ephesians,
was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.)
THE LETTER OF PAUL TO
TITUS
CHAPTER
Paul, a servant of God and an
apostle of Jesus Christ, according
to the faith of God’s elect and
the acknowledgment of the truth
which is according to godliness,
in hope of eternal life which God,
who cannot lie, promised before
the ages began,
but has in due time manifested
His word through preaching,
which is committed to me according
to the commandment of God
our Savior;
To Titus, my own son according
to the common faith: Grace,
mercy, and peace from God the
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
our Savior.
I left you in Crete for this purpose,
that you should set in order
the things that are lacking, and
ordain elders in every city as I had
appointed you.
If any is blameless, the husband
of one wife, having faithful
children not accused of riotous
behavior or insubordination.
Because, a bishop must be
blameless, as a steward of God, not
self willed, not quick tempered,
not given to wine, not violent, not
greedy for money,
but a lover of hospitality, a lover
of good men, sober, just, holy, self
controlled,
holding fast the faithful word as
he has been taught, that he may
be able, by sound doctrine, both
to exhort and convict those who
contradict.
Because, there are many insubordinate,
both idle talkers and
deceivers, especially those of the
circumcision,
whose mouths must be stopped,
who subvert entire households,
teaching things which they ought
not to, for the sake of dishonest
gain.
One of them, even a prophet
of their own, said, “The Cretans
are always liars, evil beasts, lazy
gluttons.”
This testimony is true. Therefore
rebuke them sharply, that they
may be sound in the faith,
not giving heed to Jewish fables
and commandments of men who
turn from the truth.
To the pure all things are pure,
but to those who are defi led and
unbelieving nothing is pure; but
even their mind and conscience
are defi led.
They profess that they know
God, but in works they deny Him,
being abominable, disobedient,
TITUS
and disqualifi ed for every good
work.
CHAPTER
But as for you, speak the things
which are proper for sound
doctrine:
that the older men be sober, reverent,
temperate, sound in faith,
in love, in patience;
the older women likewise,
that they demonstrate holiness
in behavior, not slanderers, not
slaves to wine bingeing, teachers
of good things;
that they may teach the young
women to be sober, to love their
husbands, to love their children,
to be discreet, chaste, homemakers,
good, obedient to their own
husbands, that the word of God
may not be blasphemed.
Likewise, exhort the young men
to be sober minded,
in all things showing yourself
to be a pattern of good works; in
doctrine showing incorruptibility
reverence, integrity,
sound speech that cannot be
condemned, that one who is an
opponent may be ashamed, having
no evil thing to say of you.
Exhort servants to be obedient to
their own masters, and to be well
pleasing in all things, not answering
back,
not stealing, but showing all
good fi delity, that they may adorn
the doctrine of God our Savior in
all things.
Because, the grace of God that
brings salvation has appeared to
all men,
teaching us that, denying
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we
should live soberly, righteously,
and godly in the present age,
looking for that blessed hope and
the glorious appearing of the great
God even our Savior Jesus Christ,
who gave Himself for us, that He
might redeem us from all iniquity
and purify for Himself His own special
people, zealous for good works.
Speak these things, exhort, and
rebuke with all authority. Let no
one despise you.
CHAPTER
Remind them to be subject to
rulers and authorities, to obey
magistrates, to be ready for every
good work,
to speak evil of no one, not quarrelsome
but gentle, showing all
meekness to all men.
Because, we ourselves were
also once foolish, disobedient,
deceived, serving various lusts
and pleasures, living in malice
and envy, hateful and hating one
another.
But when the kindness and the
love of God our Savior toward
man appeared,
TITUS 
not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according
to His mercy He saved us,
through the washing of regeneration
and renewing of the Holy
Spirit,
whom He poured out on us
abundantly through Jesus Christ
our Savior,
that having been justifi ed by
His grace we should become heirs
according to the hope of eternal
life.
This is a faithful saying, and
these things I want you to affi rm
constantly, that those who have
believed in God should be careful
to maintain good works. These
things are good and profi table to
men.
But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies,
contentions, and strivings
about the law; because they are
unprofi table and vain.
A person who is a heretic
reject after the fi rst and second
admonition,
knowing that such a person is
warped and sinning, being self
condemned.
When I send Artemas to you, or
Tychicus, be diligent to come to
me at Nicopolis, for I have decided
to spend the winter there.
Send Zenas the lawyer and
Apollos on their journey with
care, that they may lack nothing.
And let our people also learn to
maintain good works for necessary
uses, that they may not be
unfruitful.
All who are with me greet you.
Greet those who love us in the
faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
(It was written to Titus, ordained the fi rst bishop of the church of the Cretians,
from Nicopolis of Macedonia.)
THE LETTER OF PAUL TO
PHILEMON
CHAPTER
Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ,
and Timothy our brother, to
Philemon our beloved friend, and
fellow laborer,
to our beloved Apphia, Archippus
our fellow soldier, and to the
church in your house:
Grace to you and peace from
God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
I thank my God, making mention
of you always in my prayers,
hearing of your love and faith
which you have toward the Lord
Jesus and toward all the saints,
that the sharing of your faith
may become eff ectual by acknowledging
every good thing that is in
you in Christ Jesus.
Because, we have great joy and
consolation in your love, because,
the hearts of the saints have been
refreshed by you, brother.
Therefore, although I could be
very bold in Christ to command
you that which is appropriate,
yet for love’s sake I rather make
request of you, being such a one
as Paul the aged, and now also a
prisoner of Jesus Christ:
I make request of you for my son
Onesimus, whom I have begotten
while in my chains,
who was formerly unprofi table
to you, but is now profi table to
you and to me.
Whom I have sent again.
Therefore you receive him, that
is, my own heart,
whom I would have kept with
me, that in your position, he
might have ministered to me in
the chains of the gospel.
But I did not want to do anything
without your consent, that
your goodness might not be of
obligation, but voluntary.
Because, perhaps he departed
for a season for this reason, that
you might receive him forever,
not now as a servant, but more
than a servant, a beloved brother,
especially to me but how much
more to you, both in the fl esh and
in the Lord?
If then you count me as a partner,
receive him as you would me.
If he has wronged you, or owes
you anything, put that on my
account.
I Paul have written this with my
own hand, I will repay it, not to
mention to you how you also owe
to me even your own lives.
Yes, brother, let me have joy
from you in the Lord; refresh my
heart in the Lord.
PHILEMON 
Having confi dence in your obedience,
I wrote to you, knowing
that you will also do even more
than I say.
But, meanwhile, prepare for me
a guest room also, because I trust
that through the prayers of you
all I shall be given to you all.
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in
Christ Jesus, greets you,
also Mark, Aristarchus, Demas,
Luke, my fellow laborers.
The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
(Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant.)
THE LETTER OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
HEBREWS
CHAPTER
God, who at various times and in
diverse ways spoke in time past to
the fathers through the prophets,
has in these last days spoken
to us by His Son, whom He has
appointed heir of all things, by
whom also He made the ages;
who being the brightness of His
glory and the express image of His
person, and upholding all things
by the word of His power, when
He had by Himself purged our
sins, sat down at the right hand of
the Majesty on high,
having become so much better
than the angels, as He has
by inheritance obtained a more
excellent name than they.
Because, to which of the angels
did He ever say: “You are My Son,
today I have begotten You”? And
again: “I will be to Him a Father,
and He will be to Me a Son”?
But when He again brings the
fi rstborn into the world, He says:
“Let all the angels of God worship
Him.”
And of the angels He says: “Who
makes His angels spirits and His
ministers a fl ame of fi re.”
But to the Son He says: “Your
throne, O God, is forever and ever;
a scepter of righteousness is the
scepter of Your kingdom.
You have loved righteousness
and hated iniquity; Therefore
God, even Your God, has anointed
You with the oil of gladness above
Your companions.”
And: “You, LORD, in the beginning
laid the foundation of the
earth, and the heavens are the
work of Your hands.
They will perish, but You
remain; and they will all grow old
like clothing;
And like a cloak You will fold
them up, and they will be changed.
But You are the same, and Your
years will not fail.”
But to which of the angels has
He ever said: “Sit at My right
hand, until I make Your enemies
Your footstool”?
Are they not all ministering
spirits sent forth to minister for
those who will inherit salvation?
CHAPTER
Therefore we ought to earnestly
pay attention to the things we
have heard, lest at any time we
should let them slip away.
Because, if the word spoken
through angels proved steadfast,
and every transgression and
HEBREWS 
disobedience received a just
reward,
how shall we escape if we neglect
so great a salvation, which at the
fi rst began to be spoken by the
Lord, and was confi rmed to us by
those who heard Him,
God also bearing them witness
both with signs and wonders, with
various miracles, and gifts of the
Holy Spirit, according to His own
will?
Because, He has not put the
world to come, of which we speak,
in subjection to angels.
But one testifi ed in a certain
place, saying: “What is man that
You are mindful of him, or the son
of man that You visit him?
You have made him a little
lower than the angels; You have
crowned him with glory and
honor, and set him over the works
of Your hands.
You have put all things in subjection
under his feet.” Because, in
that He put all in subjection under
him, He left nothing that is not put
under him. But now we do not yet
see all things put under him.
But we see Jesus, who was made
a little lower than the angels, for
the suff ering of death crowned
with glory and honor, that He,
by the grace of God, might taste
death for everyone.
Because, it was fi tting for Him,
for whom are all things and by
whom are all things, in bringing
many sons to glory, to make the
captain of their salvation perfect
through suff erings.
Because, both He who sanctifi es
and those who are being sanctifi ed
are all of one, for which reason He is
not ashamed to call them brethren,
saying: “I will declare Your name
to My brethren; in the midst of the
church I will sing praise to You.”
And again: “I will put My trust
in Him.” And again: “Here am I
and the children whom God has
given Me.”
Inasmuch then as the children
are partakers of fl esh and blood,
He Himself likewise shared in
the same, that through death He
might destroy him who had the
power of death, that is, the devil,
and deliver those who through
fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage.
Because indeed He did not take
upon Him the nature of angels, but
He took on him the seed of Abraham.
Therefore, in all things He had
to be made like His brethren, that
He might be a merciful and faithful
High Priest in things pertaining
to God, to make reconciliation for
the sins of the people.
Because, in that He Himself has
suff ered, being tempted, He is able
to help those who are tempted.
HEBREWS
CHAPTER
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers
of the heavenly calling, consider
the Apostle and High Priest of our
confession, Christ Jesus,
who was faithful to Him who
appointed Him, as Moses also was
faithful in all His house.
Because, this Man was counted
worthy of more glory than Moses,
inasmuch as He who built the
house has more honor than the
house.
Because every house is built
by someone, but He who built all
things is God.
And truly Moses was faithful in
all His house as a servant, for a
testimony of those things which
would be spoken afterward,
but Christ as a Son over His own
house, whose house we are if we
hold fi rmly to the confi dence and
the rejoicing of the hope fi rmly to
the end.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit
says: “Today, if you will hear His
voice,
do not harden your hearts as in
the provocation, in the day of trial
in the wilderness,
where your fathers tested Me,
tried Me, and saw My works forty
years.
Therefore I was angry with that
generation, and said, ‘They always
deceive in their heart, and they
have not known My ways.’
So I swore in My wrath, ‘They
will not enter into My rest.’”
Beware, brethren, lest there
be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief in departing from the living
God;
but exhort one another daily,
while it is called “Today,” lest any
of you be hardened through the
deceitfulness of sin.
Because, we have become partakers
of Christ if we hold the
beginning of our confi dence
fi rmly to the end,
while it is said: “Today, if you
will hear His voice, do not harden
your hearts as in the provocation.”
Because some, having heard,
did provoke. However not all who
came out of Egypt by Moses.
Now with whom was He angry
forty years? Was it not with those
who sinned, whose corpses fell in
the wilderness?
And to whom did He swear that
they would not enter His rest, but
to those who did not believe?
So we see that they could not
enter in because of unbelief.
CHAPTER
Therefore, since a promise
remains of entering His rest, let
us have reverence lest any of you
seem to have come short of it.
HEBREWS 
Because, the gospel was
preached to us as well as to them;
but the word preached did not
profi t them, not being mixed with
faith in those who heard it.
Because, we who have believed
do enter into rest, as He has said:
“So I swore in My wrath, ‘If they
will enter into My rest,’” although
the works were fi nished from the
foundation of the world.
Because, He spoke in a certain
place of the seventh day in this
way: “And God rested on the seventh
day from all His works”;
and again in this place: “If they
will enter into My rest.”
Since therefore it remains that
some must enter it, and those to
whom it was fi rst preached did
not enter because of unbelief,
again He declares a certain day,
saying in David, “Today,” after
such a long time, as it has been
said: “Today, if you will hear
His voice, do not harden your
hearts.”
Because, if Joshua had given them
rest, then He would not have afterward
spoken about another day.
There remains therefore a rest
for the people of God.
Because, he who has entered His
rest has himself also ceased from
his own works as God did from His.
Therefore let us labor to enter
into that rest, lest anyone fall
according to the same example of
unbelief.
Because, the word of God is
living and powerful, and sharper
than any two edged sword, piercing
even to the division of soul
and spirit, and of the joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.
Neither is there any creature
that is not manifest in His sight,
but all things are naked and open
to the eyes of Him to whom we
must give account.
Seeing then that we have a great
High Priest who has passed into
the heavens, Jesus the Son of God,
let us hold fast our confession.
Because, we do not have a High
Priest who cannot sympathize
with our weaknesses, but was in
all points tempted as we are, yet
without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly to
the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy and fi nd grace to
help in time of need.
CHAPTER
Because, every high priest taken
from among men is ordained for
men in things pertaining to God,
that he may off er both gifts and
sacrifi ces for sins.
He can have compassion on
those who are ignorant and
on those who are going astray,
HEBREWS
since he himself is also subject to
weakness.
And because of this he ought,
just as for the people so also for
himself, to off er for sins.
And no man takes this honor to
himself, but he who is called by
God, just as Aaron was.
So also Christ did not glorify
Himself to become a High Priest,
but it was He who said to Him:
“You are My Son, today I have
begotten You.”
As He also says in another place:
“You are a priest forever according
to the order of Melchizedek”;
who, in the days of His fl esh,
when He had off ered up prayers
and supplications, with strong
cries and tears to Him who was
able to save Him from death, and
was heard because He had respect,
though He was a Son, yet He
learned obedience by the things
which He suff ered.
And having been perfected, He
became the author of eternal salvation
to all who obey Him,
called by God as High Priest
“according to the order of
Melchizedek,”
of whom we have much to say,
and hard to explain, since you
have become dull of hearing.
Because, though by this time
you ought to be teachers, you
require that someone teaches you
again what are the fi rst principles
of the oracles of God; and you
have become such as have need of
milk and not solid food.
Because, everyone who partakes
only of milk is unskilled in the
word of righteousness, because he
is a babe.
But solid food belongs to those
who are of full age, that is, those
who by reason of use have their
senses exercised to discern both
good and evil.
CHAPTER
Therefore, leaving the elementary
principles of the doctrine of
Christ, let us go on to perfection,
not laying again the foundation of
repentance from dead works and
of faith toward God,
of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying
on of hands, of resurrection of
the dead, and of eternal judgment.
And this we will do if God
permits.
Because, it is impossible for
those who were once enlightened,
and have tasted the heavenly gift,
and have become partakers of the
Holy Spirit,
and have tasted the good word
of God and the powers of the age
to come,
if they shall fall away, to renew
them again to repentance, since
they crucify again for themselves
HEBREWS 
the Son of God, and put Him to an
open shame.
Because, the earth which drinks
in the rain that often comes upon
it, and bears herbs useful for those
by whom it is cultivated, receives
blessing from God;
but that which bears thorns and
briers is rejected and is near to
being cursed, whose end is to be
burned.
But, beloved, we are persuaded
of better things concerning you,
yes, things that accompany salvation,
though we speak in this
manner.
Because, God is not unrighteous
to forget your work and labor
of love which you have shown
toward His name, in that you have
ministered to the saints, and do
minister.
And we desire that each one of
you show the same diligence to
the full assurance of hope until
the end,
that you do not become slothful,
but followers of those who
through faith and patience inherit
the promises.
Because, when God made a
promise to Abraham, because He
could swear by no one greater, He
swore by Himself,
saying, “Surely blessing I will
bless you, and multiplying I will
multiply you.”
And so, after he had patiently
endured, he obtained the promise.
Because, men indeed swear by
the greater, and an oath for confi
rmation is for them an end of all
dispute.
In this way, God, determining to
show more abundantly to the heirs
of promise the immutability of His
counsel, confi rmed it by an oath,
that by two immutable things,
in which it is impossible for God to
lie, we might have strong consolation,
who have fl ed for refuge to
lay hold of the hope set before us.
This hope we have as an anchor
of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
and which enters into that
which is behind the veil,
where the forerunner has
entered for us, even Jesus,
having become High Priest forever
according to the order of
Melchizedek.
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Because, this Melchizedek, king
of Salem, priest of the Most High
God, who met Abraham returning
from the slaughter of the kings
and blessed him,
to whom also Abraham gave a
tenth part of all, first being translated
as “king of righteousness,”
and then also king of Salem, that
is “king of peace,”
without father, without mother,
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without genealogy, having neither
beginning of days nor end of
life, but made like the Son of God,
remains a priest continually.
Now consider how great this man
was, to whom even the patriarch
Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.
And indeed those who are of
the sons of Levi, who receive the
office of the priesthood, have a
commandment to receive tithes
from the people according to the
law, that is, from their brethren,
though they have come from the
loins of Abraham;
but he whose genealogy is not
derived from them received tithes
from Abraham and blessed him
who had the promises.
Now beyond all contradiction
the lesser is blessed by the better.
And here mortal men receive
tithes, but there he receives them,
of whom it is witnessed that he
lives.
And Levi also, who receives
tithes, paid tithes through
Abraham, so to speak,
because he was still in the loins
of his father when Melchizedek
met him.
Therefore, if perfection were
through the Levitical priesthood
(because under it the people
received the law), what further
need was there that another priest
should rise according to the order
of Melchizedek, and not be called
according to the order of Aaron?
Because, the priesthood being
changed, of necessity there is also
a change of the law.
Because, He of whom these
things are spoken belongs to
another tribe, from which no man
has served at the altar.
Because, it is evident that our
Lord arose out of Judah, of which
tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning
priesthood.
And it is yet far more evident
if, in the likeness of Melchizedek,
there arises another priest
who is made, not according to
the law of a fleshly commandment,
but according to the power
of an endless life.
Because He testifies: “You are
a priest forever according to the
order of Melchizedek.”
Because, on the one hand there
is truly an annulling of the former
commandment because of its
weakness and unprofitableness,
because, the law made nothing
perfect; but the bringing in of a
better hope did, by which we draw
near to God.
And inasmuch as He
was not made priest without an
oath
(because, they have
become priests without an oath,
but He with an oath by Him who
said to Him: “The LORD has sworn
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and will not relent, ‘You are a
priest forever according to the
order of Melchizedek’”),
by so much more Jesus has become
a surety of a better testament.
Also truly there were many
priests, because they were prevented
by death from continuing.
But this Man, because He continues
forever, has an unchangeable
priesthood.
Therefore He is also able to save
to the uttermost those who come to
God by Him, since He always lives
to make intercession for them.
Because, such a High Priest was
fitting for us, who is holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners,
and has become higher than
the heavens;
who does not need daily, as
those high priests, to offer up sacrifices,
first for His own sins and
then for the people’s, because this
He did once when He offered up
Himself.
Because, the law appoints men
as high priests who have weakness,
but the word of the oath, which
came after the law, appoints the
Son who is consecrated forever.
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Now this is the summary of the
things we are saying: We have
such a High Priest, who is seated
at the right hand of the throne of
the Majesty in the heavens,
a Minister of the sanctuary and
of the true tabernacle which the
Lord set up, and not man.
Because, every high priest is
appointed to offer both gifts and
sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary
that this Man also have something
to offer.
Because, if He were on earth, He
would not be a priest, since there
are priests who offer the gifts
according to the law;
who serve the copy and shadow
of the heavenly things, as Moses
was admonished by God, when
he was about to make the tabernacle.
Because, He said, “See that
you make all things according
to the pattern shown you on the
mountain.”
But now He has obtained a more
excellent ministry, inasmuch as
He is also Mediator of a better
covenant, which was established
on better promises.
Because, if that first covenant
had been faultless, then no
place would have been sought for
a second.
Because, finding fault with
them, He says: “Behold, the days
are coming, says the LORD, when
I will make a new covenant with
the house of Israel and with the
house of Judah,
not according to the covenant
that I made with their fathers in
the day when I took them by the
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hand to lead them out of the land
of Egypt; because they did not
continue in My covenant, and I
disregarded them, says the LORD.”
Because, this is the covenant
that I will make with the house
of Israel after those days, says the
LORD: I will put My laws in their
mind and write them on their
hearts; and I will be to them a God,
and they will be to Me a people.
None of them will teach his
neighbor, and none his brother,
saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because
all will know Me, from the least of
them to the greatest.
Because, I will be merciful to
their unrighteousness, and their
sins and their iniquities I will
remember no more.”
In that He says, “A new covenant,”
He has made the first obsolete.
Now that which has become
obsolete and has become old is
ready to vanish away.
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Then indeed, even the fi rst covenant
had ordinances of divine
service and the earthly sanctuary.
Because, a tabernacle was prepared:
the fi rst part, in which was
the lampstand, the table, and the
showbread, which is called the
sanctuary;
and behind the second veil, the
part of the tabernacle which is
called the Holiest of All,
which had the golden censer and
the ark of the covenant overlaid
on all sides with gold, in which
were the golden pot that had the
manna, Aaron’s rod that budded,
and the tablets of the covenant;
and above it were the cherubim
of glory overshadowing the mercy
seat. Of these things we cannot
now speak in detail.
Now when these things had been
prepared like this, the priests
always went into the fi rst part of
the tabernacle, performing the
services of God.
But into the second part the high
priest went alone once a year, not
without blood, which he off ered
for himself and for the errors of
the people;
the Holy Spirit indicating this,
that the way into the Holiest of
All was not yet made manifest
while the fi rst tabernacle was still
standing.
Which was symbolic for the present
time in which both gifts and
sacrifi ces are off ered which could
not make him who performed the
service perfect in regard to the
conscience;
concerned only with foods and
drinks, various washings, and
fl eshly ordinances imposed on
them until the time of reformation.
But Christ came as High Priest
of the good things to come, with
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the greater and more perfect tabernacle
not made with hands, that
is, not of this creation.
Not with the blood of goats and
calves, but with His own blood He
entered into the Most Holy Place
once, having obtained eternal
redemption for us.
Because, if the blood of bulls and
goats and the ashes of a heifer,
sprinkling the unclean, sanctifi es
for the purifying of the fl esh,
how much more will the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit off ered Himself without
spot to God, cleanse your conscience
from dead works to serve
the living God?
And for this reason He is the
Mediator of the new testament,
that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions
that were under the fi rst
testament, that those who are
called may receive the promise of
the eternal inheritance.
Because, where there is a testament,
there must also of necessity
be the death of the testator.
Because, a testament is in force
after men are dead, since it has no
force at all while the testator lives.
Therefore not even the fi rst
testament was dedicated without
blood.
Because, when Moses had
spoken every precept to all the
people according to the law, he
took the blood of calves and goats,
with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop,
and sprinkled both the book
itself and all the people,
saying, “This is the blood of the
testament which God has commanded
you.”
Then likewise he sprinkled with
blood both the tabernacle and all
the vessels of the ministry.
And according to the law almost
all things are purifi ed with blood,
and without shedding of blood
there is no remission.
Therefore it was necessary that
the pattern of the things in the
heavens should be purifi ed with
these, but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifi ces
than these.
Because, Christ has not entered
the holy places made with hands,
which are fi gures of the true, but
into heaven itself, now to appear
in the presence of God for us;
not that He should off er Himself
often, as the high priest enters the
Most Holy Place every year with
blood of another;
He then would have had to suffer
often since the foundation of
the world; but now, once at the
end of the ages, He has appeared
to put away sin by the sacrifi ce of
Himself.
And as it is appointed for men
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to die once, but after this the
judgment,
so Christ was off ered once to
bear the sins of many. To those
who eagerly wait for Him, He will
appear a second time, apart from
sin, for salvation.
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Because the law, having a shadow
of the good things to come, and not
the very image of the things, can
never with those same sacrifi ces,
which they off ered continually
year by year, make those who
approach perfect.
Because then would they
not have ceased to be off ered?
Because, the worshipers, once
purifi ed, would have had no more
consciousness of sins.
But in those sacrifi ces there is
again a reminder made for sins
every year.
Because it is not possible that the
blood of bulls and goats could take
away sins.
Therefore, when He came into
the world, He said: “Sacrifi ce and
off ering You did not desire, but a
body You have prepared for Me.
In burnt off erings and sacrifi ces
for sin You had no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come
(in the volume of the book it is written
of Me) to do Your will, O God.’”
Previously saying, “Sacrifi ce
and off ering, burnt off erings, and
off erings for sin You did not desire,
nor had pleasure in them” (which
are off ered according to the law),
then He said, “Behold, I have
come to do Your will, O God.” He
takes away the fi rst that He may
establish the second.
By that will, we are sanctifi ed
through the off ering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all.
And every priest stands ministering
daily and off ering
repeatedly the same sacrifi ces,
which can never take away sins.
But this Man, after He had
off ered one sacrifi ce for sins forever,
sat down at the right hand
of God,
from that time waiting until His
enemies are made His footstool.
Because by one off ering He has
perfected forever those who are
sanctifi ed.
But the Holy Spirit also witnesses
to us; because after that He
had said beforehand,
“This is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days,
says the LORD: I will put My laws
into their hearts, and in their
minds I will write them,”
“Their sins and their iniquities I
will remember no more.”
Now where there is remission of
these, there is no longer an off ering
for sin.
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Therefore, brethren, having
boldness to enter the Holiest by
the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way which
He consecrated for us, through
the veil, that is to say, His fl esh,
and having a High Priest over
the house of God,
let us draw near with a true
heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from
an evil conscience and our bodies
washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast the confession
of our faith without
wavering, because He who promised
is faithful.
And let us consider one
another in order to provoke love
and good works,
not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as is the manner
of some, but exhorting one
another, and so much the more as
you see the Day approaching.
Because, if we sin willfully after
we have received the knowledge
of the truth, there no longer
remains a sacrifi ce for sins,
but a certain fearful expectation
of judgment, and fi ery indignation
which will devour the adversaries.
Anyone who has rejected
Moses’ law died without mercy
on the testimony of two or three
witnesses.
Of how much worse punishment,
do you suppose, will he be thought
worthy who has trampled the Son
of God underfoot, counted the
blood of the covenant by which
he was sanctifi ed an unholy thing,
and insulted the Spirit of grace?
Because, we know Him who
said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will
repay,” says the Lord. And again,
“The LORD will judge His people.”
It is a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God.
But recall the former days in
which, after you were illuminated,
you endured a great fi ght
of affl ictions:
partly while you were made a
spectacle both by reproaches and
affl ictions, and partly while you
became companions of those who
were so treated;
because you had compassion
on me in my chains, and joyfully
accepted the plundering of your
goods, knowing that you have a
better and an enduring possession
for yourselves in heaven.
Therefore do not cast away
your confi dence, which has great
reward.
Because, you have need of
endurance, so that after you have
done the will of God, you may
receive the promise:
Because, “Yet a little while, and
He who is coming will come and
will not delay.
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Now the just will live by faith;
but if anyone draws back, My soul
will have no pleasure in him.”
But we are not of those who
draw back to perdition, but of
those who believe to the saving of
the soul.
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Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
Because by it the elders obtained
a good testimony.
Through faith we understand
that the ages were framed by the
word of God, so that the things
which are seen were not made of
things which are visible.
By faith Abel off ered to God
a more excellent sacrifi ce than
Cain, by which he obtained witness
that he was righteous, God
testifying of his gifts; and by it he
being dead still speaks.
By faith Enoch was taken away
so that he did not see death, “and
was not found, because God had
taken him”; because before he was
taken he had this testimony, that
he pleased God.
But without faith it is impossible
to please Him, because, he who
comes to God must believe that
He is, and that He is a rewarder of
those who diligently seek Him.
By faith Noah, being warned by
God of things not yet seen, moved
with reverence, prepared an ark
for the saving of his household, by
which he condemned the world
and became heir of the righteousness
which is by faith.
By faith Abraham obeyed when
he was called to go out to the
place which he would receive as
an inheritance. And he went out,
not knowing where he was going.
By faith he dwelt in the land of
promise as in a foreign country,
dwelling in tents with Isaac and
Jacob, the heirs with him of the
same promise;
because, he waited for the city
which has foundations, whose
builder and maker is God.
By faith Sarah herself also
received strength to conceive
seed, and she bore a child when
she was past the age, because
she judged Him faithful who had
promised.
Therefore from one man, and
him as good as dead, were born
as many as the stars of the sky in
multitude, innumerable as the
sand which is by the seashore.
These all died in faith, not having
received the promises, but
having seen them afar off were
persuaded of them, embraced
them and confessed that they
were strangers and pilgrims on
the earth.
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Because those who say such
things declare plainly that they
seek a homeland.
And truly if they had called to
mind that country from which
they had come out, they would
have had opportunity to return.
But now they desire a better,
that is, a heavenly country.
Therefore God is not ashamed to
be called their God, because He
has prepared a city for them.
By faith Abraham, when he was
tested, off ered up Isaac, and he
who had received the promises
off ered up his only begotten son,
of whom it was said, “In Isaac
your seed will be called,”
concluding that God was able to
raise him up, even from the dead,
from which he also received him
in a fi gurative sense.
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and
Esau concerning things to come.
By faith Jacob, when he was
dying, blessed both of the sons of
Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on
the top of his staff .
By faith Joseph, when he was
dying, made mention of the departure
of the children of Israel, and
gave instructions concerning his
bones.
By faith Moses, when he was
born, was hidden three months
by his parents, because they saw
he was a beautiful child; and they
were not afraid of the king’s
command.
By faith Moses, when he became
of age, refused to be called the son
of Pharaoh’s daughter,
choosing rather to suff er affl iction
with the people of God than to
enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,
esteeming the reproach of
Christ greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt; because he
looked to the reward.
By faith he forsook Egypt, not
fearing the wrath of the king;
because he endured as seeing Him
who is invisible.
Through faith he kept the
Passover and the sprinkling of
blood, lest he who destroyed the
fi rstborn should touch them.
By faith they passed through the
Red Sea as by dry land, whereas
the Egyptians, attempting to do
so, were drowned.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell
down after they were encircled
for seven days.
By faith the harlot Rahab did
not perish with those who did not
believe, when she had received
the spies with peace.
And what more shall I say?
Because, the time would fail
me to tell of Gideon and Barak
and Samson and Jephthah, also
of David and Samuel and the
prophets:
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who through faith subdued
kingdoms, worked righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the
mouths of lions,
quenched the violence of fi re,
escaped the edge of the sword, out
of weakness were made strong,
became valiant in battle, turned to
fl ight the armies of the foreigners.
Women received their dead
raised to life again. Others were
tortured, not accepting deliverance,
that they might obtain a
better resurrection.
And others had trial of cruel
mockings and scourgings, yes,
and of chains and imprisonment.
They were stoned, they were
sawn in two, were tempted,
were slain with the sword. They
wandered about in sheepskins
and goatskins, being destitute,
affl icted, tormented;
of whom the world was not
worthy. They wandered in deserts
and in mountains, in dens and
caves of the earth.
And all these, having obtained a
good testimony through faith, did
not receive the promise,
God having provided something
better for us, that they should not
be made perfect apart from us.
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Therefore seeing we also are
surrounded by so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which so easily
ensnares us, and let us run with
endurance the race that is set
before us,
looking to Jesus, the author
and fi nisher of our faith, who for
the joy that was set before Him
endured the cross, despising the
shame, and has sat down at the
right hand of the throne of God.
Because, consider Him who
endured such hostility from sinners
against Himself, lest you become
weary and faint in your minds.
You have not yet resisted to
bloodshed, striving against sin.
And you have forgotten the
exhortation which speaks to you
as to children: “My son, do not
despise the chastening of the
LORD, nor be discouraged when
you are rebuked by Him;
Because, whom the Lord loves
He chastens, and scourges every
son whom He receives.”
If you endure chastening, God
deals with you as with sons;
because what son is there whom a
father does not chasten?
But if you are without chastening,
of which all have become
partakers, then you are illegitimate
and not sons.
Furthermore, we have had
human fathers who corrected us,
and we gave them respect. Should
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we not much more readily be in
subjection to the Father of spirits
and live?
Because, they indeed for a few
days chastened us as seemed best
to them, but He for our profi t, that
we may be partakers of His holiness.
Now no chastening seems to be
joyful for the present, but painful;
nevertheless, afterward it
yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness
to those who have been
trained by it.
Therefore strengthen the hands
which hang down, and the feeble
knees,
and make straight paths for
your feet, so that what is lame
may not be turned out of the way,
but rather let it be healed.
Pursue peace with all people,
and holiness, without which no
one will see the Lord:
looking diligently lest anyone
fall short of the grace of God; lest
any root of bitterness springing
up cause trouble, and by this
many become defi led;
lest there be any fornicator or profane
person like Esau, who for one
morsel of food sold his birthright.
Because, you know that afterward,
when he wanted to inherit
the blessing, he was rejected,
because he found no place for
repentance, though he sought it
diligently with tears.
Because, you have not come
to the mountain that may be
touched and that burned with
fi re, and to blackness and darkness
and tempest,
and the sound of a trumpet and
the voice of words, which voice
those who heard it begged that
the word should not be spoken to
them anymore.
(Because, they could not endure
what was commanded: “And if
so much as a beast touches the
mountain, it shall be stoned or
shot with an arrow.”
And so terrifying was the sight
that Moses said, “I am exceedingly
afraid and trembling.”)
But you have come to Mount
Zion and to the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an
innumerable company of angels,
to the general assembly and
church of the fi rstborn who are
written in heaven, to God the
Judge of all, to the spirits of just
men made perfect,
to Jesus the Mediator of the
new covenant, and to the blood
of sprinkling that speaks better
things than that of Abel.
See that you do not refuse Him
who speaks. Because, if they did
not escape who refused Him who
spoke on earth, much more will
we not escape if we turn away from
Him who speaks from heaven,
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whose voice then shook the
earth; but now He has promised,
saying, “Yet once more I shake not
only the earth, but also heaven.”
Now this phrase, “Yet once
more,” indicates the removal
of those things that are being
shaken, as of things that are made,
that the things which cannot be
shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we are receiving
a kingdom which cannot be
shaken, let us have grace, by which
we may serve God acceptably with
respect and godly reverence.
Because our God is a consuming
fi re.
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Let brotherly love continue.
Do not forget to entertain strangers,
because by doing so some have
unknowingly entertained angels.
Remember the prisoners as if
chained with them, and those who
suff er adversity, since you yourselves
are in the same body.
Marriage is honorable among
all, and the bed undefi led; but fornicators
and adulterers God will
judge.
Let your conduct be without covetousness;
and be content with
such things as you have. Because
He Himself has said, “I will never
leave you nor forsake you.”
So that we may boldly say: “The
LORD is my helper, and I will not
fear what man shall do to me!”
Remember your leaders, who
have spoken the word of God to
you, whose faith follow, considering
the outcome of their conduct.
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday,
today, and forever.
Do not be carried about with
various and strange doctrines.
Because, it is good that the heart
be established with grace, not with
foods which have not profi ted
those who have been occupied
with them.
We have an altar from which
those who serve the tabernacle
have no right to eat.
Because, the bodies of those
animals, whose blood is brought
into the sanctuary by the high
priest for sin, are burned outside
the camp.
Therefore Jesus also, that He
might sanctify the people with
His own blood, suff ered outside
the gate.
Therefore let us go forth to
Him, outside the camp, bearing
His reproach.
Because, here we have no continuing
city, but we seek the one
to come.
Therefore by Him let us continually
off er the sacrifi ce of praise
to God, that is, the fruit of our lips,
giving thanks to His name.
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But do not forget to do good and
to share, because with such sacrifi
ces God is well pleased.
Obey those who lead you, and
be submissive, because they watch
out for your souls, as those who
must give account. Let them do so
with joy and not with grief, because
that is unprofi table for you.
Pray for us; because, we are
confi dent that we have a good
conscience in all things, desiring
to live honorably.
But I especially urge you to do
this, that I may be restored to you
the sooner.
Now may the God of peace who
brought up our Lord Jesus from
the dead, that great Shepherd of
the sheep, through the blood of
the everlasting covenant,
make you complete in every
good work to do His will, working
in you what is well pleasing in
His sight, through Jesus Christ, to
whom be glory forever and ever.
Amen.
And I urge you, brethren, bear
with the word of exhortation,
because I have written to you in
few words.
Know that our brother Timothy
has been set free, with whom I
shall see you if he comes shortly.
Greet all those who rule over
you, and all the saints. Those from
Italy greet you.
Grace be with you all. Amen.
(Written to the Hebrews from Italy, by Timothy.)
THE GENERAL LETTER OF
JAMES
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James, a servant of God and
of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
twelve tribes which are scattered
abroad: Greetings.
My brethren, count it all joy
when you fall into various trials,
knowing this, that the testing of
your faith produces perseverance.
But let perseverance have her
perfect work, that you may be
perfect and complete, lacking
nothing.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let
him ask of God, who gives to all people
liberally and without reproach,
and it will be given to him.
But let him ask in faith, nothing
wavering, because, he who wavers
is like a wave of the sea driven and
tossed by the wind.
Because, do not let that man
think that he will receive anything
from the Lord;
a double minded man is unstable
in all his ways.
Let the lowly brother rejoice in
his exaltation,
but the rich in his humiliation,
because as a fl ower of the fi eld he
will pass away.
Because, no sooner has the sun
risen with a burning heat than it
withers the grass; its fl ower falls,
and its beautiful appearance perishes.
So the rich man likewise
will fade away in his ways.
Blessed is the man who endures
temptation; because, when he has
been approved, he will receive the
crown of life which the Lord has
promised to those who love Him.
Let no one say when he is
tempted, “I am tempted by God”;
because, God cannot be tempted
by evil, nor does He tempt anyone.
But each one is tempted when
he is drawn away by his own lust
and enticed.
Then, when lust has conceived,
it brings forth sin; and sin, when it
is fi nished, brings forth death.
Do not be deceived, my beloved
brethren.
Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above, and comes
down from the Father of lights,
with whom there is no variation
or shadow of turning.
Of His own will He begot us by
the word of truth, that we might be
a type of fi rstfruits of His creatures.
So then, my beloved brethren,
let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak, slow to wrath;
because, the wrath of man does
not produce the righteousness of
God.
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Therefore lay aside all fi lthiness
and overfl ow of wickedness,
and receive with meekness the
implanted word, which is able to
save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and
not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves.
because, if anyone is a hearer of
the word and not a doer, he is like
a man observing his natural face
in a mirror;
because, he observes himself,
goes away, and immediately forgets
what kind of man he was.
But he who looks into the perfect
law of liberty and continues in
it, and is not a forgetful hearer but
a doer of the work, this one will be
blessed in what he does.
If anyone among you seems to
be religious, and does not bridle
his tongue but deceives his own
heart, this one’s religion is vain.
Pure and undefi led religion
before God and the Father is this:
to visit orphans and widows in
their affl iction, and to keep oneself
unspotted from the world.
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My brethren, do not hold the
faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Lord of glory, with personal
favoritism.
Because, if there should come
into your assembly a man with
a gold ring, in fi ne apparel, and
there should also come in a poor
man in fi lthy clothes,
and you have respect to the one
wearing the fi ne clothes and say
to him, “You sit here in a good
place,” and say to the poor person,
“You stand there,” or, “Sit here at
my footstool,”
have you not shown personal
favoritism among yourselves,
and have become judges with evil
thoughts?
Listen, my beloved brethren:
Has not God also chosen the poor
of this world to be rich in faith and
heirs of the kingdom which He
promised to those who love Him?
But you have despised the poor.
Do not also the rich oppress you
and drag you before the courts?
Do they not blaspheme that worthy
name by which you are called?
If you fulfi ll the royal law according
to the Scripture, “You shall
love your neighbor as yourself,”
you do well;
but if you show personal
favoritism, you commit sin,
and are convicted by the law as
transgressors.
Because, whoever shall keep
the entire law, and yet stumble in
one point, he is guilty of all.
Because, He who said, “Do not
commit adultery,” also said, “Do
not murder.” Now if you do not
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commit adultery, but you do
murder, you have become a transgressor
of the law.
So speak and so do as those
who will be judged by the law of
liberty.
Because, judgment is without
mercy to the one who has shown
no mercy. And mercy triumphs
over judgment.
What does it profi t, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith
but does not have works? Can
faith save him?
If a brother or sister is naked
and destitute of daily food,
and one of you says to them,
“Depart in peace, be warmed and
fi lled,” but you do not give them
the things which are needed for
the body, what does it profi t?
So likewise faith by itself, if it
does not have works, is dead.
Yes, someone may say, “You
have faith, and I have works.”
Show me your faith without your
works, and I will show you my
faith by my works.
You believe that there is one
God. You do well. Even the demons
believe, and tremble!
But do you want to know, O
vain man, that faith without
works is dead?
Was not Abraham our father
justifi ed by works when he off ered
Isaac his son upon the altar?
Do you see that faith was working
together with his works, and
by works faith was made perfect?
And the Scripture was fulfi lled
which says, “Abraham believed
God, and it was imputed to him for
righteousness.” And he was called
the Friend of God.
You see then how that a man
is justifi ed by works, and not by
faith only.
Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot
also justifi ed by works when
she received the messengers and
sent them out another way?
Because, as the body without
the spirit is dead, so faith without
works is dead also.
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My brethren, do not let many of
you be teachers, knowing that we
will receive a stricter judgment.
Because, we all off end in many
things. If anyone does not off end
in word, he is a perfect man, and
able also to bridle the whole body.
Behold, we put bits in horses’
mouths that they may obey us,
and we turn their entire body.
Look also at ships: although
they are so large and are driven by
fi erce winds, yet they are turned
about by a very small rudder
wherever the pilot desires.
Even so the tongue is a little
member and boasts great things.
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See how large an object a little fi re
kindles!
And the tongue is a fi re, a world
of iniquity. The tongue is so set
among our members that it defi les
the entire body, and sets on fi re
the course of nature; and it is set
on fi re by hell.
Because, every kind of beast and
bird, of reptile and things in the
sea, is tamed and has been tamed
by mankind.
But no man can tame the tongue.
It is an unruly evil, full of deadly
poison.
With it we bless our God and
Father, and with it we curse men,
who have been made in the similitude
of God.
Out of the same mouth proceed
blessing and cursing. My brethren,
these things ought not to be so.
Does a spring send forth fresh
water and bitter from the same
opening?
Can a fi g tree, my brethren,
bear olives, or a grapevine bear
fi gs? Thus no spring yields both
salt water and fresh.
Who is wise and knowledgeable
among you? Let him show by good
conduct that his works are done
in the meekness of wisdom.
But if you have bitter envy and
selfi sh ambition in your hearts, do
not boast and lie against the truth.
This wisdom does not descend
from above, but is earthly, sensual,
demonic.
Because, where envy and selfish
ambition exist, confusion and
every evil thing are there.
But the wisdom that is from
above is fi rst pure, then peaceable,
gentle, and willing to yield,
full of mercy and good fruits,
without personal favoritism and
without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is
sown in peace by those who make
peace.
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Where do wars and fi ghts come
from among you? Do they not come
from your lust for pleasure that
war in your members?
You lust and do not have. You
murder and covet and cannot
obtain. You fi ght and war. Yet you
do not have because you do not
ask.
You ask and do not receive,
because you ask amiss, that you
may spend it on your pleasures.
You adulterers and adulteresses!
Do you not know that friendship
with the world is enmity with
God? Whoever therefore wants
to be a friend of the world is the
enemy of God.
Or do you think that the
Scripture says in vain, that the
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spirit that dwells within us lusts
enviously?
But He gives more grace.
Therefore He says: “God resists
the proud, but gives grace to the
humble.”
Therefore submit to God. Resist
the devil and he will fl ee from you.
Draw near to God and He will
draw near to you. Cleanse your
hands, you sinners; and purify
your hearts, you double minded.
Lament and mourn and weep!
Let your laughter be turned to
mourning and your joy to gloom.
Humble yourselves in the sight
of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
Do not speak evil of one another,
brethren. He who speaks evil of
his brother and judges his brother,
speaks evil of the law and judges
the law. But if you judge the law,
you are not a doer of the law but
a judge.
There is one Lawgiver, who is
able to save and to destroy. Who
are you to judge another?
Come now, you who say, “Today
or tomorrow we will go to such
and such a city, spend a year there,
buy and sell, and make a profi t”;
whereas you do not know what
will happen tomorrow. Because
what is your life? It is even a vapor
that appears for a little time and
then vanishes away.
Instead you ought to say, “If the
Lord wills, we shall live and do
this or that.”
But now you boast in your arrogance.
All such boasting is evil.
Therefore, to him who knows to
do good and does not do it, to him
it is sin.
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Come now, you rich men, weep
and howl for your miseries that
will come upon you!
Your riches are corrupted, and
your clothes are moth eaten.
Your gold and silver are corroded,
and their corrosion will
be a witness against you and will
eat your fl esh like it was fi re. You
have heaped up treasure in the
last days.
Behold, the wages of the laborers
who harvested your fi elds,
which you kept back by fraud,
cries out; and the outcry of the
reapers have reached the ears of
the Lord of Sabaoth.
You have lived on the earth in
pleasure and luxury; you have fattened
your hearts as in a day of
slaughter.
You have condemned and murdered
the just; and he does not
resist you.
Therefore be patient, brethren,
until the coming of the Lord. See
how the farmer waits for the precious
fruit of the earth, and waits
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patiently for it until he receives
the early and latter rain.
You also be patient. Establish
your hearts, for the coming of the
Lord draws near.
Do not hold a grudge against
one another, brethren, lest you be
condemned. Behold, the Judge is
standing at the door!
My brethren, take the prophets,
who have spoken in the name of
the Lord, as an example of suff ering
affl iction and of patience.
Behold, we count them blessed
who endure. You have heard of
the perseverance of Job and seen
the end intended by the Lord, that
the Lord is very compassionate
and merciful.
But above all, my brethren, do
not swear, either by heaven or
by earth or with any other oath.
But let your “Yes” be “Yes,” and
your “No,” “No,” lest you fall into
condemnation.
Is anyone among you affl icted?
Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful?
Let him sing psalms.
Is anyone among you sick?
Let him call for the elders of the
church, and let them pray over
him, anointing him with oil in the
name of the Lord.
And the prayer of faith will save
the sick, and the Lord will raise
him up. And if he has committed
sins, he will be forgiven.
Confess your faults to one
another, and pray for one another,
that you may be healed. The eff ective,
fervent prayer of a righteous
man avails much.
Elijah was a man subject to passions
as we are, and he prayed
earnestly that it would not rain;
and it did not rain on the land for
three years and six months.
And he prayed again, and the
heaven gave rain, and the earth
produced her fruit.
Brethren, if any of you wanders
from the truth, and someone converts
him
let him know that he who converts
a sinner from the error of
his way will save a soul from death
and cover a multitude of sins.
THE FIRST GENERAL LETTER OF
PETER
CHAPTER
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
to the pilgrims scattered throughout
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
Asia, and Bithynia,
elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father, through
sanctifi cation of the Spirit to
obedience, and sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you
and peace be multiplied.
Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who according
to His abundant mercy has
begotten us again to a living hope
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead,
to an inheritance incorruptible,
undefi led, and that does not fade
away, reserved in heaven for you,
who are kept by the power of
God through faith for salvation
ready to be revealed in the last
time.
In this you greatly rejoice,
though now for a season, if need
be, you are in heaviness through
various trials,
that the testing of your faith,
being much more precious than
gold that perishes, though it be
tested by fi re, may be found to
praise, honor, and glory at the
appearing of Jesus Christ,
whom having not seen, you
love. In whom, though now you
do not see Him, yet believing, you
rejoice with unspeakable joy, and
full of glory,
receiving the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls.
Of this salvation, the prophets
inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of this grace that
would come to you;
searching for what, or which
particular time, the Spirit of
Christ who was in them signifi ed
when He testifi ed beforehand of
the suff erings of Christ and the
glory that would follow.
To them it was revealed that,
not to themselves, but to us they
ministered the things that are
now reported to you by those who
have preached the gospel to you
by the Holy Spirit sent down from
heaven, things which the angels
desire to look into.
Therefore gird up the loins of
your mind, be sober, and hope
until the end for the grace that is
to be brought to you at the revelation
of Jesus Christ;
as obedient children, not conforming
yourselves according
to the former lusts, as in your
ignorance,
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but just as He who has called
you is holy, you also be holy in all
your conduct,
because it is written, “Be holy,
because I am holy.”
And if you call on the Father,
who without personal favoritism
judges according to each one’s
work, pass the time of your pilgrimage
here in reverence;
knowing that you were not
redeemed with corruptible things,
like silver or gold, from your vain
conduct received by tradition
from your fathers,
but with the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot.
He indeed was foreordained
before the foundation of the
world, but was manifest in these
last times for you
who now by Him believe in God,
who raised Him up from the dead
and gave Him glory, so that your
faith and hope might be in God.
Seeing you have purifi ed
your souls in obeying the truth
through the Spirit in sincere love
of the brethren, see that you love
one another fervently with a pure
heart,
having been born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word of God which
lives and abides forever.
Because, “All fl esh is like grass,
and all the glory of man like the
fl ower of the grass. The grass
withers, and its fl ower falls away,
but the word of the LORD
endures forever.” Now this is
the word which by the gospel is
preached to you.
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Therefore laying aside all malice,
all deceit, hypocrisy, envy,
and all evil speaking,
as newborn babes, desire the
pure milk of the word, that you
may grow thereby,
if indeed you have tasted that
the Lord is gracious.
Coming to Him as to a living
stone, rejected indeed by men, but
chosen by God and precious,
you also, as living stones, are
built up as a spiritual house, a
holy priesthood, to off er up spiritual
sacrifi ces acceptable to God
by Jesus Christ.
Therefore it is also contained
in the scripture, “Behold, I lay in
Zion a chief cornerstone, elect,
precious, and he who believes on
Him will not be put to shame.”
Therefore, to you who believe,
He is precious; but to those who
are disobedient, “The stone which
the builders rejected, has become
the head cornerstone,”
and “A stone of stumbling and
a rock of off ense,” which is to those
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who stumble at the word, being
disobedient, to which they are
also appointed.
But you are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a special people, that you may
proclaim the praises of Him who
has called you out of darkness into
His marvelous light;
who once were not a people, but
are now the people of God, who
had not obtained mercy, but now
have obtained mercy.
Beloved, I urge you as foreigners
and pilgrims, abstain from fl eshly
lusts, which war against the soul,
having your conduct honorable
among the Gentiles, that while
they speak against you as evildoers,
they may, by your good works
which they observe, glorify God in
the day of visitation.
Submit yourselves to every
ordinance of man for the Lord’s
sake, whether it be to the king as
supreme,
or to governors, as to those
who are sent by him for the punishment
of evildoers and for the
praise of those who do good.
Because, this is the will of God,
that by doing good you may put
to silence the ignorance of foolish
men,
as free, yet not using your liberty
as a cover for maliciousness,
but as the servants of God.
Honor all people. Love the brotherhood.
Reverence God. Honor
the king.
Servants, be submissive to your
masters with all reverence, not
only to the good and gentle, but
also to the harsh.
Because, this is admirable, if
because of conscience toward God
a person endures grief, suff ering
wrongfully.
Because, what glory is it if, when
you are punished for your faults,
you take it patiently? But when
you do good and suff er for it, if you
take it patiently, this is acceptable
before God.
Because, to this were you called,
because Christ also suff ered for
us, leaving us an example, that
you should follow His steps:
“Who did no sin, nor was deceit
found in His mouth”;
who, when He was reviled, did
not revile in return; when He suffered,
He did not threaten, but
committed Himself to Him who
judges righteously;
who Himself bore our sins in
His own body on the tree, that we,
being dead to sins, should live for
righteousness, by whose stripes
you were healed.
Because, you were like sheep
going astray, but have now
returned to the Shepherd and
Overseer of your souls.
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Likewise, wives, be in subjection
to your own husbands, so that if
any do not obey the word, they
also without the word may be won
by the conduct of their wives,
when they observe your
chaste conduct accompanied with
reverence.
Do not let your adornment be
only an outward appearance,
arranging the hair, wearing gold,
or putting on of clothes,
but let it be the hidden person
of the heart, with that which is
incorruptible, even the adornment
of a meek and quiet spirit, which is
of great value in the sight of God.
Because, in this manner, in
old times, the holy women who
trusted in God also adorned themselves,
being in submission to
their own husbands,
just as Sarah obeyed Abraham,
calling him lord, whose daughters
you are if you do good and are not
afraid with any terror.
Husbands, likewise, dwell with
them according to knowledge, giving
honor to the wife, as to the
weaker vessel, and as being heirs
together of the grace of life, that
your prayers may not be hindered.
Finally, all of you be of one
mind, having compassion for one
another; love as brethren, be tenderhearted,
be courteous;
not returning evil for evil or
reviling for reviling, but on the
contrary blessing, knowing that
you are called to this, that you
should inherit a blessing.
Because, “He who would love
life and see good days, let him
refrain his tongue from evil, and
his lips from speaking deceit.
Let him turn away from evil,
and do good; let him seek peace
and pursue it.
Because, the eyes of the LORD
are on the righteous, and His ears
are open to their prayers; but the
face of the LORD is against those
who do evil.”
And who is he who will harm
you if you be followers of that
which is good?
But even if you suff er for righteousness’
sake, you are blessed.
“And do not be afraid of their
threats, nor be troubled.”
But sanctify the Lord God in your
hearts, and always be ready to give
an answer to everyone who asks
you a reason for the hope that is in
you, with meekness and reverence;
having a good conscience, that
when they defame you as evildoers,
those who falsely accuse your
good conduct in Christ may be
ashamed.
Because, it is better, if it is the
will of God, that you suff er for
doing good than for doing evil.
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Because, Christ also suff ered
once for sins, the just for the
unjust, that He might bring us
to God, being put to death in the
fl esh but made alive by the Spirit,
by whom also He went and
preached to the spirits in prison,
who formerly were disobedient,
when once the longsuff ering
of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was being prepared,
in which a few, that is, eight souls,
were saved by water.
This is also fi gurative of that
which also now saves us, even baptism
(not the removal of the fi lth
of the fl esh, but the answer of a
good conscience toward God), by
the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
who has gone into heaven and
is on the right hand of God, angels
and authorities and powers having
been made subject to Him.
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Therefore, since Christ suff ered
for us in the fl esh, arm yourselves
likewise with the same mind,
because, he who has suff ered in
the fl esh has ceased from sin,
that he no longer should live the
rest of his time in the fl esh for the
lusts of men, but for the will of God.
Because, we spent enough of our
former life in doing the will of
the Gentiles, when we walked in
lustfulness, desires, drunkenness,
partying, drinking parties, and
abominable idolatries,
in concerning these things they
think it is strange that you do not
run with them in the same excessive
rioting, speaking evil of you,
who will give an account to Him
who is ready to judge the living
and the dead.
Because, for this reason was
the gospel also preached to those
who are dead, that they might be
judged according to men in the
fl esh, but live according to God in
the spirit.
But the end of all things is at
hand; therefore be sober and
watchful in prayer.
And above all things have fervent
love among yourselves,
because “love will cover the multitude
of sins.”
Be hospitable to one another
without grumbling.
As each one has received the
gift, even so also minister the same
to one another, as good stewards
of the manifold grace of God.
If anyone speaks, let him speak
as the oracles of God. If anyone
ministers, let him do it as with the
ability which God gives, that in
all things God may be glorifi ed
through Jesus Christ, to whom be
the praise and dominion forever
and ever. Amen.
Beloved, do not think it strange
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concerning the fi ery trial which
is to test you, as though some
strange thing happened to you;
but rejoice to the degree that
you participate in Christ’s suff erings,
that when His glory will be
revealed, you may also be glad
with exceeding joy.
If you are reproached for the
name of Christ, you are blessed,
because the Spirit of glory and of
God rests upon you. On their part
He is blasphemed, but on your
part He is glorifi ed.
But let none of you suff er as a
murderer, as a thief, as an evildoer,
or as a busybody in other
people’s matters.
Yet if anyone suff ers as a
Christian, let him not be ashamed,
but let him glorify God in this
matter.
Because, the time has come
that judgment must begin at the
house of God; and if it begins with
us fi rst, what will be the end of
those who do not obey the gospel
of God?
Now “if the righteous are
scarcely saved, where will the
ungodly and the sinner appear?”
Therefore let those who suff er
according to the will of God commit
the preservation of their souls
to Him in doing good, as to a faithful
Creator.
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The elders who are among you
I exhort, who am also an elder
and a witness of the suff erings of
Christ, and also a partaker of the
glory that will be revealed:
Feed the fl ock of God which is
among you, serving as overseers,
not by obligation but willingly,
not for dishonest gain, but with
an eager mind;
nor as being lords over God’s
heritage, but being examples to
the fl ock;
and when the Chief Shepherd will
appear, you will receive a crown of
glory that does not fade away.
Likewise you younger ones,
submit yourselves to the elders.
Yes, all of you be submissive to
one another, and be clothed with
humility, because, “God resists
the proud, but gives grace to the
humble.”
Therefore humble yourselves
under the mighty hand of God,
that He may exalt you in due time,
casting all your burdens upon
Him, because He cares for you.
Be sober, be vigilant; because
your adversary the devil walks
about like a roaring lion, seeking
whom he may devour.
Resist him steadfast in the faith,
knowing that the same affl ictions
are experienced by your brethren
who are in the world.
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But may the God of all grace, who
has called us to His eternal glory
by Christ Jesus, after you have
suff ered a while, perfect, establish,
strengthen, and settle you.
To Him be glory and dominion
forever and ever. Amen.
By Silvanus, a faithful brother
to you as I consider him, I have
written to you briefl y, exhorting
and testifying that this is the true
grace of God in which you stand.
The church who is in Babylon,
elect together with you, greets
you; and so does Mark my son.
Greet one another with a kiss of
love. Peace be to you all who are in
Christ Jesus. Amen.
THE SECOND GENERAL LETTER OF
PETER
CHAPTER
Simon Peter, a servant and an
apostle of Jesus Christ, to those
who have obtained like precious
faith with us through the righteousness
of God even our Savior
Jesus Christ:
Grace and peace be multiplied
to you through the knowledge of
God and of Jesus our Lord,
in the same way as His divine
power has given to us all things
that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of Him
who has called us to glory and
virtue,
by which are given to us
exceedingly great and precious
promises, that by these you might
be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through lust.
And beside this, giving all diligence,
add to your faith virtue,
and to virtue knowledge,
and to knowledge self control,
and to self control perseverance,
and to perseverance godliness,
And to godliness brotherly kindness,
and to brotherly kindness
love.
Because, if these things are in
you and abound, they make you
that you will be neither barren nor
unfruitful in the knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
But he who lacks these things is
short sighted and blind, and has
forgotten that he was cleansed
from his old sins.
Therefore instead brethren, be
diligent to make your calling and
election certain, because if you do
these things you will never fall;
because, then an entrance will
be provided for you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Therefore I will not be negligent
to constantly remind you of
these things, though you know
them and are established in the
present truth.
Yes, I think it is right, as long as
I am in this tent, to stir you up by
reminding you,
knowing that shortly I must put
off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus
Christ has shown me.
Moreover I will endeavor
that after my decease you may
be able to have these things in
remembrance.
Because, we did not follow cunningly
devised fables when we
made known to you the power
and coming of our Lord Jesus
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Christ, but were eyewitnesses of
His majesty.
Because, He received from
God the Father honor and glory
when a voice came to Him from
the Excellent Glory: “This is My
beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased.”
And we heard this voice which
came from heaven when we were
with Him on the holy mountain.
We also have an additional confi
rmed word of prophecy, which
you do well to observe as a light
that shines in a dark place, until
the day dawns and the day star
rises in your hearts;
knowing this fi rst, that no
prophecy of Scripture is of any
private interpretation.
because, the prophecy in old
times did not come by the will of
man, but holy men of God spoke
as they were moved by the Holy
Spirit.
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But there were false prophets
also among the people, even as
there will be false teachers among
you, who will secretly bring in
damnable heresies, even denying
the Lord who bought them,
and bring upon themselves swift
destruction.
And many will follow their
destructive ways, because of
whom the way of truth will be
blasphemed.
And through covetousness they
will exploit you with deceptive
words for profi t; for a long time
their judgment has not been idle,
and their damnation does not
slumber.
Because, if God did not spare
the angels who sinned, but cast
them down to hell and delivered
them into chains of darkness, to
be reserved for judgment;
and did not spare the old world,
but saved Noah one of eight people,
a preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the fl ood upon the
world of the ungodly;
and turning the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned
them with destruction,
making them an example to
those who afterward would live
ungodly;
and delivered righteous Lot,
who was oppressed with the fi lthy
conduct of the wicked
(because, that righteous man,
dwelling among them, tormented
his righteous soul from day to day
by seeing and hearing their lawless
deeds).
The Lord knows how to deliver
the godly out of temptations and
to reserve the unjust for the day
of judgment to be punished,
but especially those who walk
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according to the fl esh in the
lust of uncleanness and despise
authority. They are presumptuous,
self willed, they are not
afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
whereas angels, who are greater
in power and might, do not bring
a reviling accusation against them
before the Lord.
But these, like natural brute
beasts, made to be captured and
destroyed, speak evil of the things
that they do not understand, and
will utterly perish in their own
corruption,
and will receive the wages of
unrighteousness, as those who
count it pleasure to be riotous in
the daytime. They are spots and
blemishes, delighting themselves
with their own deceptions while
they feast with you,
having eyes full of adultery, and
that cannot cease from sin, enticing
unstable souls. They have a
heart trained with covetous practices,
and are cursed children.
They have forsaken the right
way and have gone astray, following
the way of Balaam the son
of Beor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness;
but was rebuked for his iniquity:
the mute donkey speaking
with a man’s voice restrained the
madness of the prophet.
These are wells without water,
clouds that are carried by a tempest,
for whom is reserved the
blackness of darkness forever.
Because, when they speak
great swelling words of emptiness,
they allure through the lusts of
the fl esh, through unrestrained
lusts, those who had completely
escaped from those who live in
error.
While they promise them liberty,
they themselves are the
servants of corruption; because
by whom a person is overcome,
by him also is he brought in
bondage.
Because if, after they have
escaped the pollutions of the
world through the knowledge of
the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
they are again entangled in
them and overcome, the latter
end is worse for them than the
beginning.
because, it would have been
better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness,
than after having known it, to
turn from the holy commandment
delivered to them.
But it has happened to them
according to the true proverb:
“The dog returned to his own
vomit again,” and, “a sow, having
washed, to her wallowing in the
mire.”
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Beloved, I now write to you
this second letter, in both which
I stir up your pure minds by the
method of remembrance,
that you may be mindful of the
words which were spoken beforehand
by the holy prophets, and
of the commandment of us, the
apostles of the Lord and Savior,
knowing this fi rst, that scoff ers
will come in the last days, walking
according to their own lusts,
and saying, “Where is the promise
of His coming? Because, since
the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the
beginning of creation.”
Because, they are willfully ignorant
of this: that by the word of
God the heavens were of old, and
the earth standing out of water
and in the water,
by which the world that then
existed perished, being fl ooded
with water.
But the heavens and the earth
which are now preserved by the
same word, are reserved for fi re
until the day of judgment and perdition
of ungodly men.
But, beloved, do not be ignorant
of this one thing, that with
the Lord one day is as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one
day.
The Lord is not slack concerning
His promise, as some count slackness,
but is longsuff ering toward
us, not willing that any should
perish but that all should come to
repentance.
But the day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night,
in which the heavens will pass
away with a great noise, and
the elements will melt with fervent
heat; both the earth and
the works that are in it will be
burned up.
Seeing then that all these things
will be dissolved, what manner of
persons ought you to be in all holy
conduct and godliness,
looking for, and moving rapidly
toward, the coming of the day of
God, in which the heavens will be
dissolved, being on fi re, and the
elements will melt with fervent
heat?
Nevertheless we, according to
His promise, look for new heavens
and a new earth in which righteousness
dwells.
Therefore, beloved, seeing that
you look for such things, be diligent
to be found by Him in peace,
without spot and blameless;
and consider that the longsuffering
of our Lord is salvation, just
as also our beloved brother Paul,
according to the wisdom given to
him, has written to you,
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as also in all his letters, speaking
in them of these things, in which
are some things which are hard
to understand, which unlearned
and unstable people twist, as they
do also the other Scriptures, to
their own destruction.
You therefore, beloved, since
you know this beforehand,
beware lest you also fall from
your own steadfastness, being led
away with the error of the wicked;
but grow in grace and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both
now and forever. Amen.
THE FIRST GENERAL LETTER OF
JOHN
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That which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which
we have seen with our eyes, which
we have looked upon, and our
hands have handled, concerning
the Word of life;
(because, the life was manifested,
and we have seen it, and
bear witness, and show to you
that eternal life, which was with
the Father, and was manifested to
us:)
that which we have seen and
heard we declare to you, that you
also may have fellowship with us;
and truly our fellowship is with
the Father and with His Son Jesus
Christ.
And these things we write to
you that your joy may be full.
This then is the message which
we have heard from Him and
declare to you, that God is light
and in Him is no darkness at all.
If we say that we have fellowship
with Him, and walk in darkness,
we lie and do not practice the
truth.
But if we walk in the light as He
is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood
of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
from all sin.
If we say that we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth
is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not
sinned, we make Him a liar, and
His word is not in us.
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My little children, these things
I write to you, so that you do not
sin. And if anyone sins, we have
an Advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous.
And He is the propitiation for
our sins, and not for ours only but
also for the sins of the entire world.
Now by this we know that
we know Him, if we keep His
commandments.
He who says, “I know Him,”
and does not keep His commandments,
is a liar, and the truth is
not in him.
But whoever keeps His word,
truly the love of God is perfected
in him. By this we know that we
are in Him.
He who says he abides in Him
should also himself so walk just as
He walked.
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Brethren, I write no new commandment
to you, but an old
commandment which you have
had from the beginning. The old
commandment is the word which
you heard from the beginning.
Again, a new commandment I
write to you, which thing is true
in Him and in you, because the
darkness has passed away, and the
true light now shines.
He who says he is in the light,
and hates his brother, is in darkness
until now.
He who loves his brother abides
in the light, and there is no cause
for stumbling in him.
But he who hates his brother
is in darkness, and walks in darkness,
and does not know where he
is going, because that darkness
has blinded his eyes.
I write to you, little children,
because your sins are forgiven
you for His name’s sake.
I write to you, fathers, because
you have known Him who is from
the beginning. I write to you,
young men, because you have
overcome the wicked one. I write
to you, little children, because you
have known the Father.
I have written to you, fathers,
because you have known Him
who is from the beginning. I
have written to you, young men,
because you are strong, and the
word of God abides in you, and
you have overcome the wicked
one.
Do not love the world or the
things that are in the world. If anyone
loves the world, the love of
the Father is not in him.
Because, everything that is in the
world, the lust of the fl esh, the lust
of the eyes, and the pride of life, is
not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world is passing away,
and the lust of it; but he who does
the will of God abides forever.
Little children, it is the last time;
and as you have heard the Antichrist
is coming, even now there are many
antichrists, by whom we know that
it is the last time.
They went out from us, but
they were not of us; because, if
they had been of us, no doubt they
would have continued with us ;
but they went out that they might
be made manifest, that they were
not all of us.
But you have an anointing from
the Holy One, and you know all
things.
I have not written to you
because you do not know the
truth, but because you know it,
and that no lie is of the truth.
Who is a liar but he who denies
that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist
who denies the Father and
the Son.
  JOHN
Whoever denies the Son, the
same does not have the Father:
but he who acknowledges the Son
has the Father also.
Therefore let that abide in you
which you have heard from the
beginning. If what you heard from
the beginning remains in you, you
also will continue in the Son and
in the Father.
And this is the promise that He
has promised us, even eternal life.
These things I have written to
you concerning those who seduce
you.
But the anointing which you
have received from Him abides
in you, and you do not need that
anyone teach you; but as the same
anointing teaches you concerning
all things, and is true, and is not a
lie, and just as it has taught you,
you shall abide in Him.
And now, little children, abide
in Him; that when He appears, we
may have confi dence and not be
ashamed before Him at His coming.
If you know that He is righteous,
you know that everyone
who practices righteousness is
born of Him.
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Behold what manner of love the
Father has given to us, that we
should be called the sons of God!
Therefore the world does not
know us, because it did not know
Him.
Beloved, now we are the sons
of God, and it has not yet been
revealed what we will be, but we
know that when He appears, we
will be like Him, because we will
see Him as He is.
And everyone who has this hope
in Him purifi es himself, just as He
is pure.
Whoever commits sin also transgresses
the law, because sin is the
transgression of the law.
And you know that He was manifested
to take away our sins, and
in Him is no sin.
Whoever abides in Him does
not sin. Whoever sins has neither
seen Him nor known Him.
Little children, let no one deceive
you. He who does righteousness is
righteous, just as He is righteous.
He who commits sin is of the
devil, because the devil has sinned
from the beginning. For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that He might destroy the
works of the devil.
Whoever is born of God does
not commit sin, because, His seed
remains in him; and he cannot sin,
because he is born of God.
In this the children of God
and the children of the devil are
revealed: whosoever does not
practice righteousness is not of
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God, nor he who does not love his
brother.
Because, this is the message
that you heard from the beginning,
that we should love one
another,
not as Cain who was of that
wicked one and murdered his
brother. And why did he kill him?
Because his own works were evil
and his brother’s righteous.
Do not marvel, my brethren, if
the world hates you.
We know that we have passed
from death to life, because we
love the brethren. He who does
not love his brother abides in
death.
Whoever hates his brother is a
murderer, and you know that no
murderer has eternal life abiding
in him.
By this we perceive the love
of God, because He laid down His
life for us. And we also should lay
down our lives for the brethren.
But whoever has this world’s
goods, and sees his brother in
need, and shuts up his heart of
compassion from him, how does
the love of God abide in him?
My little children, let us not
love in word or in tongue, but in
deed and in truth.
And by this we know that we
are of the truth, and will assure
our hearts before Him.
Because, if our heart condemns
us, God is greater than our heart,
and knows all things.
Beloved, if our heart does not
condemn us, then have we confidence
toward God.
And whatever we ask we
receive from Him, because we
keep His commandments and do
those things that are pleasing in
His sight.
And this is His commandment:
that we should believe on the
name of His Son Jesus Christ and
love one another, as He gave us
commandment.
Now he who keeps His commandments
abides in Him, and
He in him. And by this we know
that He abides in us, by the Spirit
whom He has given us.
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Beloved, do not believe every
spirit, but test the spirits whether
they are of God; because many
false prophets have gone out into
the world.
By this you know the Spirit of
God: Every spirit that confesses
that Jesus Christ came in the fl esh
is of God,
and every spirit that does not
confess that Jesus Christ came in
the fl esh is not of God. And this is
that spirit of antichrist, which you
have heard was coming and even
now it is already in the world.
  JOHN
You are of God, little children,
and have overcome them, because
greater is He who is in you than he
who is in the world.
They are of the world. Therefore
they speak from the world, and
the world hears them.
We are of God. He who knows
God hears us; he who is not of God
does not hear us. By this we know
the spirit of truth and the spirit of
error.
Beloved, let us love one another,
because love is of God; and everyone
who loves is born of God and
knows God.
He who does not love does not
know God, because God is love.
In this the love of God was manifested
toward us, in that God sent
His only begotten Son into the
world, that we might live through
Him.
In this is love, not that we loved
God, but that He loved us and sent
His Son to be the propitiation for
our sins.
Beloved, if God loved us so
much, we also should love one
another.
No one has seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God abides
in us, and His love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide
in Him, and He in us, because He
has given us of His Spirit.
And we have seen and do testify
that the Father has sent the Son to
be the Savior of the world.
Whoever confesses that Jesus is
the Son of God, God abides in him,
and he in God.
And we have known and believed
the love that God has toward us.
God is love, and he who abides in
love abides in God, and God in him.
By this is our love perfected,
that we may have boldness in the
day of judgment; because as He is,
so are we in this world.
There is no fear in love; but perfect
love casts out fear, because
fear involves torment. He who
fears has not been made perfect
in love.
We love Him because He fi rst
loved us.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and
yet hates his brother, he is a liar;
because, he who does not love his
brother whom he has seen, how
can he love God whom he has not
seen?
And this commandment we
have from Him: that he who loves
God should love his brother also.
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Whoever believes that Jesus
is the Christ is born of God, and
everyone who loves Him who
begot also loves him who is begotten
of Him.
By this we know that we love the
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children of God, when we love God
and keep His commandments.
Because, this is the love of God,
that we keep His commandments.
And His commandments are not
burdensome.
Because, whatever is born of
God overcomes the world. And
this is the victory that overcomes
the world, even our faith.
Who is he who overcomes the
world, but he who believes that
Jesus is the Son of God?
This is He who came by water
and blood, even Jesus Christ; not
only by water, but by water and
blood. And it is the Spirit who
bears witness, because the Spirit
is truth.
Because there are three that
bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and
these three are one.
And there are three that bear
witness on earth, the Spirit, the
water, and the blood; and these
three agree in one.
If we receive the witness of men,
the witness of God is greater;
because this is the witness of God
which He has testified of His Son.
He who believes on the Son of
God has the witness in himself;
he who does not believe God has
made Him a liar, because he does
not believe the record that God
gave of His Son.
And this is the record: that God
has given to us eternal life, and
this life is in His Son.
He who has the Son has life; and
he who does not have the Son of
God does not have life.
These things I have written
to you who believe on the name
of the Son of God, that you may
know that you have eternal life,
and that you may believe on the
name of the Son of God.
Now this is the confidence that
we have in Him, that if we ask
anything according to His will, He
hears us.
And if we know that He hears
us, whatever we ask, we know
that we have the petitions that we
desired from Him.
If anyone sees his brother sin
a sin which is not leading to death,
he shall ask, and He will give him
life for those who commit sin not
leading to death. There is a sin
leading to death. I do not say that
he should pray for that.
All unrighteousness is sin, and
there is a sin not leading to death.
We know that whoever is born
of God does not sin; but he who
has been begotten of God keeps
himself, and that wicked one does
not touch him.
And we know that we are of
God, and the entire world lies in
wickedness.
  JOHN
And we know that the Son of
God came, and has given us an
understanding, that we may
know Him who is true; and we are
in Him who is true, even in His
Son Jesus Christ. This is the true
God and eternal life.
Little children, keep yourselves
from idols. Amen.
JOHN 
THE SECOND GENERAL LETTER OF
JOHN
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The elder to the elect lady and
her children, whom I love in the
truth, and not I only, but also all
those who have known the truth,
for the truth’s sake which abides
in us, and will be with us forever:
Grace be with you, mercy, and
peace, from God the Father and
from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son
of the Father in truth and love.
I rejoiced greatly that I found
some of your children walking in
truth, as we have received a commandment
from the Father.
And now I urge you, lady, not as
though I wrote a new commandment
to you, but that which we
had from the beginning: that we
love one another.
And this is love, that we walk
according to His commandments.
This is the commandment, that as
you have heard from the beginning,
you should walk in it.
Because many deceivers have
entered into the world, who do
not confess that Jesus Christ came
in the fl esh. This is a deceiver and
an antichrist.
Look to yourselves, that we do
not lose those things which we
have worked for, but that we
receive a full reward.
Whoever transgresses and does
not abide in the doctrine of Christ
does not have God. He who abides
in the doctrine of Christ, he has
both the Father and the Son.
If anyone comes to you, and
does not bring this doctrine, do
not receive him into your house,
neither greet him with a blessing:
Because he who greets him with
a blessing shares in his evil deeds.
Having many things to write to
you, I did not wish to write with
paper and ink; but I hope to come
to you and speak face to face, that
our joy may be full.
The children of your elect sister
greet you. Amen.
  JOHN
THE THIRD GENERAL LETTER OF
JOHN
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The elder to the well beloved
Gaius, whom I love in the truth:
Beloved, I wish above all things
that you may prosper and be in
health, just as your soul prospers.
Because I rejoiced greatly, when
the brethren came and testifi ed of
the truth that is in you, just as you
walk in the truth.
I have no greater joy than to hear
that my children walk in truth.
Beloved, you do faithfully whatever
you do for the brethren, and
for strangers,
who have borne witness of your
love before the church; whom if
you send them forward on their
journey in a manner worthy of
God, you will do well,
because they went forth for His
name’s sake, taking nothing from
the Gentiles.
We therefore ought to receive
such, that we may become fellow
workers for the truth.
I wrote to the church, but
Diotrephes, who loves to have the
preeminence among them, does
not receive us.
Therefore, if I come, I will
remember his deeds which he
does, prating against us with
malicious words. And not satisfi
ed with that, he himself does not
receive the brethren, and forbids
those who want to, throwing them
out of the church.
Beloved, do not follow that
which is evil, but that which is
good. He who does good is of God,
but he who does evil has not seen
God.
Demetrius has a good testimony
from all men, and from the
truth itself. Yes, and we also bear
witness, and you know that our
record is true.
I had many things to write, but I
will not write to you with pen and
ink;
but I hope I shall see you shortly,
and we will speak face to face.
Peace be to you. Our friends greet
you. Greet the friends by name.
THE GENERAL LETTER OF
JUDE
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Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ,
and brother of James, to those who
are sanctifi ed by God the Father,
and preserved in Jesus Christ, and
called:
Mercy to you, and peace, and
love, be multiplied.
Beloved, while I was very diligent
to write to you about the
common salvation, it was necessary
for me to write to you, and
urge you that you should contend
earnestly for the faith which was
once for all delivered to the saints.
Because, there are certain men
who crept in unnoticed, who long
ago were ordained to this condemnation,
ungodly men, turning
the grace of our God into lustfulness
and denying the only Lord
God even our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore I want to remind you,
although you once knew this, that
the Lord, having saved the people
out of the land of Egypt, afterward
destroyed those who did not
believe.
And the angels who did not keep
their fi rst domain, but left their
own habitat, He has reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness
for the judgment of the great day.
Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah,
and the cities about them in the
same manner, giving themselves
over to sexual immorality and
going after other fl esh, are set
forth as an example, suff ering the
vengeance of eternal fi re.
Likewise also these fi lthy dreamers
defi le the fl esh, despise
authority, and speak evil of those
highly esteemed.
Yet Michael the archangel,
while contending with the devil,
when he disputed about the body
of Moses, dared not bring against
him a railing accusation, but said,
“The Lord rebuke you!”
But these speak evil of those
things they know nothing of; but
what they know naturally, like
brute beasts, in these things they
corrupt themselves.
Woe to them! Because, they
have gone in the way of Cain,
have run greedily in the error of
Balaam for profi t, and perished in
the rebellion of Korah.
These are spots in your love
feasts, while they feast with you,
feeding themselves without reverence.
They are clouds without
water, carried about by winds;
trees whose fruit withers, without
fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the
roots;
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raging waves of the sea, foaming
out their own shame; wandering
stars for whom is reserved the
blackness of darkness forever.
Now Enoch, the seventh from
Adam, also prophesied about
these men, saying, “Behold, the
Lord comes with ten thousands of
His saints,
to execute judgment upon all,
to convict all who are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly
deeds which they have committed
in an ungodly manner, and of all
their harsh words which ungodly
sinners have spoken against Him.”
These are grumblers, complainers,
walking according to their
own lusts; and their mouth speaks
great swelling words, fl attering
people to gain advantage.
But you, beloved, remember the
words which were spoken beforehand
by the apostles of our Lord
Jesus Christ:
how they told you there would
be mockers in the last time who
would walk according to their
own ungodly lusts.
These are those who separate
themselves, sensual, not having
the Spirit.
But you, beloved, building yourselves
up on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Spirit,
keep yourselves in the love of
God, looking for the mercy of our
Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
And on some have compassion,
making a distinction;
but others save with fear, pulling
them out of the fi re, hating even
the clothing defi led by the fl esh.
Now to Him who is able to keep
you from falling, and to present
you faultless before the presence
of His glory with exceeding joy,
To the only wise God our Savior,
be glory and majesty, dominion
and power, both now and forever.
Amen.
THE REVELATION
OF JOHN THE DIVINE
CHAPTER
The Revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave to Him to show
to His servants, things that will
come to pass suddenly. And He
sent and signifi ed it by His angel
to His servant John,
who bore record to the word of
God, and of the testimony of Jesus
Christ, and of everything that he
saw.
Blessed is he who reads and
those who hear the words of this
prophecy, and keep those things
which are written in it; because
the time is at hand.
John, to the seven churches
which are in Asia: Grace be to you
and peace from Him who is and
who was and who is to come, and
from the seven Spirits who are
before His throne,
and from Jesus Christ, who is
the faithful witness, the fi rstborn
from the dead, and the ruler of
the kings of the earth. To Him
who loved us and washed us from
our sins in His own blood,
and has made us kings and
priests to God and His Father, to
Him be glory and dominion forever
and ever. Amen.
Behold, He is coming with
clouds, and every eye will see
Him, and also those who pierced
Him. And all tribes of the earth
will mourn because of Him. Even
so, Amen.
“I am Alpha and Omega, the
Beginning and the End,” says the
Lord, “who is and who was and
who is to come, the Almighty.”
I John, who am also your brother
and companion in tribulation
and in the kingdom and patience
of Jesus Christ, was on the island
that is called Patmos for the word
of God and for the testimony of
Jesus Christ.
I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s
day, and heard behind me a loud
voice, as of a trumpet,
saying, “I am Alpha and Omega,
the First and the Last,” and, “What
you see, write in a book and send
it to the seven churches which are
in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to
Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis,
to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
Then I turned to see the voice
that spoke with me. And having
turned I saw seven golden
lampstands,
and in the midst of the seven
lampstands One like the Son of
Man, clothed with a garment down
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to the feet and wrapped about the
chest with a golden band.
His head and his hair were white
like wool, as white as snow, and
His eyes were like a fl ame of fi re;
His feet were like fi ne brass, as if
being refi ned in a furnace, and His
voice as the sound of many waters;
And He had in His right hand
seven stars, out of His mouth
went a sharp two edged sword,
and His countenance was like the
sun shining in its strength.
And when I saw Him, I fell at
His feet as dead. But He laid His
right hand on me, saying to me,
“Do not fear; I am the First and
the Last.
I am He who lives, and was
dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.
Amen. And I have the
keys of Hell and of Death.
Write the things which you
have seen, and the things which
are, and the things which will be
after this.
The mystery of the seven stars
which you saw in My right hand,
and the seven golden lampstands:
The seven stars are the angels of
the seven churches, and the seven
lampstands which you saw are
the seven churches.
CHAPTER
To the angel of the church of
Ephesus write, ‘These things says
He who holds the seven stars in
His right hand, who walks among
the seven golden lampstands:
“I know your works, your labor,
your endurance, and how you
cannot bear those who are evil.
And you have tested those who
say they are apostles and are not,
and have found them liars;
and you have persevered and
have endurance, and have labored
for My name’s sake and have not
become weary.
But I have some things against
you, that you have left your fi rst
love.
Remember therefore from
where you have fallen; and repent
and do the fi rst works, or else I
will come to you suddenly and
remove your lampstand from its
place, unless you repent.
But you have this, that you hate
the works of the Nicolaitans,
which I also hate.
“He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the
churches. To him who overcomes
I will give to eat from the Tree of
Life, which is in the midst of the
Paradise of God.”’
“And to the angel of the church
in Smyrna write, ‘These things
says the First and the Last, who
was dead, and is alive:
“I know your works, tribulation,
and poverty (but you are rich);
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and I know the blasphemy of those
who say they are Jews and are not,
but are the synagogue of Satan.
Do not fear any of those things
which you are about to suff er.
Behold, the devil is about to
throw some of you into prison,
that you may be tested, and you
will all have tribulation ten days.
Be faithful until death, and I will
give you the crown of life.
“He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the
churches. He who overcomes
will not be hurt by the second
death.”’
“And to the angel of the church
in Pergamos write, ‘These things
says He who has the sharp two
edged sword:
“I know your works, and where
you dwell, even where Satan’s
throne is. And you hold fast to
My name, and did not deny My
faith even in those days in which
Antipas was My faithful martyr,
who was killed among you, where
Satan dwells.
But I have a few things against
you, because you have those there
who hold the doctrine of Balaam,
who taught Balak to throw a
stumbling block before the children
of Israel, to eat things
sacrifi ced to idols, and to commit
sexual immorality.
And also you have those
who hold the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
Repent, or else I will come to you
suddenly and will fi ght against
them with the sword of My mouth.
“He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the
churches. To him who overcomes
I will give to eat from the hidden
manna. And I will give him a white
stone, and on the stone a new
name written which no one knows
except he who receives it.”’
“And to the angel of the church
in Thyatira write, ‘These things
says the Son of God, who has eyes
like a fl ame of fi re, and His feet
are like fi ne brass:
“I know your works, love, service,
faith, endurance and your
works; and the last to be more
than the fi rst.
But I have a few things against
you, because you permit that
woman Jezebel, who calls herself
a prophetess, to teach and seduce
My servants to commit sexual
immorality and eat things sacrifi
ced to idols.
And I gave her time to repent
of her sexual immorality, and she
did not repent.
Behold, I will throw her into
a bed, and those who commit
adultery with her into great tribulation,
unless they repent of
their deeds.
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I will kill her children with
death, and all the churches will
know that I am He who searches
the minds and hearts. And I will
give to each one of you according
to your works.
“Now to you I say, and to the
rest in Thyatira, as many as do
not have this doctrine, and who
have not known, as they say, the
depths of Satan, I will put on you
no other burden.
But what you already have, hold
fi rmly until I come.
And he who overcomes, and
keeps My works until the end, to
him I will give authority over the
nations:
‘He will rule them with a rod of
iron; they will be broken to pieces
like the potter’s vessels’ just as I
have received from My Father;
and I will give him the morning
star.
“He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.”’
CHAPTER
“And to the angel of the church in
Sardis write, ‘These things says He
who has the seven Spirits of God
and the seven stars: “I know your
works, that you have a name that
you are alive, but you are dead.
Be watchful, and strengthen
the things which remain, that
are about to die, because I have
not found your works perfect
before God.
Remember therefore how you
have received and heard; and
hold fi rmly and repent. Therefore
if you will not watch, I will come
upon you as a thief, and you will
not know what hour I will come
upon you.
You have a few names even in
Sardis who have not defi led their
garments; and they will walk
with Me in white, because they
are worthy.
He who overcomes, these will be
clothed in white garments, and I
will not blot out his name from
the Book of Life; but I will confess
his name before My Father and
before His angels.
“He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.”’
“And to the angel of the church in
Philadelphia write, ‘These things
says He who is holy, He who is true,
“He who has the key of David, He
who opens and no one shuts, and
shuts and no one opens”:
“I know your works. Behold, I
have set before you an open door,
and no one can shut it; because,
you have a little strength, have
kept My word, and have not
denied My name.
Behold, I will make those of the
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synagogue of Satan, who say they
are Jews and are not, but do lie,
behold, I will make them come
and worship before your feet, and
to know that I have loved you.
Because you have kept My word
to persevere, I also will keep you
from the hour of trial that will
come upon the entire world, to
test those who dwell on the earth.
Behold, I am coming suddenly!
Hold fi rmly to what you have,
that no one may take your crown.
He who overcomes, I will make
a pillar in the temple of My God,
and he will go out no more. And I
will write on him the name of My
God and the name of the city of
My God, which is New Jerusalem,
which comes down out of heaven
from My God. And I will write on
him My new name.
“He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.”’
“And to the angel of the church
of the Laodiceans write, ‘These
things says the Amen, the Faithful
and True Witness, the beginning
of the creation of God:
“I know your works, that you
are neither cold nor hot. I wish
that you were cold or hot.
So then, because you are lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot, I
will vomit you out of my mouth.
Because you say, ‘I am rich, am
increased with possessions, and
have need of nothing,’ but do not
know that you are wretched, miserable,
poor, blind, and naked;
I counsel you to buy from Me
gold refi ned in the fi re, that you
may be rich; and white clothing,
that you may be clothed, so that
the shame of your nakedness does
not appear; and anoint your eyes
with eye salve, that you may see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten. Therefore be zealous
and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door and
knock. If anyone hears My voice
and opens the door, I will come
in to him and will dine with Him,
and he with Me.
To him that overcomes will
I allow to sit with Me on My
throne, just as I also overcame
and have sat down with My
Father on His throne.
He who has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.”’”
CHAPTER
After these things I looked,
and behold, a door was opened in
heaven. And the fi rst voice which
I heard seemed as it was of a trumpet
speaking with me, which said,
“Come up here, and I will show you
things that must be after this.”
And immediately I was in the
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spirit; and behold, a throne was
set in heaven, and One sat on
the throne.
And He who sat there looked
like a jasper and a sardine stone;
and there was a rainbow around
about the throne, which looked
like an emerald.
And around the throne were
twenty four thrones, and on the
thrones I saw twenty four elders
sitting, clothed in white clothing;
and they had golden crowns on
their heads.
And lightnings, thunderings,
and voices proceeded from the
throne. And there were seven lamps
of fi re burning before the throne,
which are the seven Spirits of God.
And before the throne there
was a sea of glass, like crystal.
And in the midst of the throne,
and around the throne, were four
creatures full of eyes in the front
and the back.
And the fi rst creature was like a
lion, and the second creature like
a calf, and the third creature had
a face like a man, and the fourth
creature was like a fl ying eagle.
And the four creatures, each of
them having six wings around
him, also were full of eyes inside.
And they do not rest day or night,
saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God
Almighty, Who was, and is and is
to come!”
And whenever the creatures
give glory and honor and thanks
to Him who sits on the throne,
who lives forever and ever,
the twenty four elders fall down
before Him who sits on the throne
and worship Him who lives forever
and ever, and throw their
crowns before the throne, saying:
“You are worthy, O Lord, to
receive glory and honor and
power; because, You have created
all things, and for Your pleasure
they are and were created.”
CHAPTER
And I saw in the right hand
of Him who sat on the throne a
scroll written inside and on the
back, sealed with seven seals.
Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming
with a loud voice, “Who
is worthy to open the scroll and
to loose its seals?”
And no one in heaven or on
earth or under the earth was able
to open the scroll, or to look at it.
So I wept greatly, because no one
was found worthy to open and to
read the scroll, or to look at it.
But one of the elders said to me,
“Do not weep. Behold, the Lion
of the tribe of Judah, the Root of
David, has prevailed to open the
scroll and to loose its seven seals.”
And I looked, and behold, in the
midst of the throne and of the
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four creatures, and amongst the
elders, stood a Lamb as though
it had been slain, having seven
horns and seven eyes, which are
the seven Spirits of God sent out
into all the earth.
Then He came and took the
scroll out of the right hand of Him
who sat on the throne.
Now when He had taken the
scroll, the four creatures and
twenty four elders fell down before
the Lamb, each having harps and
golden bowls full of incense, which
are the prayers of saints.
And they sang a new song,
saying: “You are worthy to take
the scroll, and to open its seals;
because, You were slain, and have
redeemed us to God by Your blood
out of every tribe and language
and people and nation,
and have made us kings and
priests to our God; and we will
reign on the earth.”
Then I looked, and I heard the
voice of many angels surrounding
the throne, and the creatures
and the elders; and the number
of them was ten thousand times
ten thousand, and thousands of
thousands,
saying with a loud voice:
“Worthy is the Lamb who was
slain to receive power and riches
and wisdom, and strength and
honor and glory and blessing!”
And I heard every creature
which is in heaven and on the
earth and under the earth and
such as are in the sea, and all that
are in them, saying: “Blessing and
honor and glory and power, be to
Him who sits on the throne, and
to the Lamb forever and ever!”
And the four creatures said,
“Amen!” And the twenty four
elders fell down and worshiped
Him who lives forever and ever.
CHAPTER
Now I saw when the Lamb
opened one of the seals; and I
heard one of the four creatures
saying with a voice like thunder,
“Come and see.”
And I looked, and behold, a white
horse. And he who sat on him had
a bow; and a crown was given to
him, and he went out conquering
and to conquer.
And when He opened the second
seal, I heard the second creature
say, “Come and see.”
And another horse that was red
went out. And authority was given
to the one who sat on it to take
peace from the earth, and that they
should kill one another; and there
was given to him a large sword.
Then when He had opened the
third seal, I heard the third creature
say, “Come and see.” So I
looked, and behold, a black horse,
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and he who sat on it had a pair of
scales in his hand.
And I heard a voice in the midst
of the four creatures saying, “A
measure of wheat for a denarius,
and three measures of barley for
a denarius; and see you do not
harm the oil and the grape juice.”
And when He opened the fourth
seal, I heard the voice of the fourth
creature say, “Come and see.”
So I looked, and behold, a pale
horse. And the name of him who
sat on it was Death, and Hell followed
with him. And authority
was given to them over a quarter
of the earth, to kill with sword,
with hunger, with death, and by
the beasts of the earth.
And when He opened the fi fth
seal, I saw under the altar the
souls of those who had been slain
for the word of God and for the
testimony which they held.
And they shouted with a loud
voice, saying, “How long, O Lord,
holy and true, until You judge and
avenge our blood on those who
inhabit the earth?”
Then a white robe was given to
each of them; and it was said to
them that they should rest a little
while longer, until their fellow
servants and also their brethren,
who should be killed just as they
were, should be fulfi lled.
And I looked when He opened the
sixth seal, and behold, there was
a large earthquake; and the sun
became black as sackcloth of hair,
and the moon became like blood.
And the stars of heaven fell to
the earth, just as a fi g tree drops
her untimely fi gs when she is
shaken by a strong wind.
Then the heaven receded like
a scroll when it is rolled up, and
every mountain and island was
moved out of its place.
And the kings of the earth, and
the great men, and the rich men,
and the commanders, and the
mighty men, and every slave and
every free man, hid themselves in
the caves and in the rocks of the
mountains,
and said to the mountains and
rocks, “Fall on us and hide us
from the face of Him who sits on
the throne and from the wrath of
the Lamb!
Because, the great day of His
wrath has come, and who shall be
able to stand?”
CHAPTER
Now after these things I saw four
angels standing on the four corners
of the earth, holding the four
winds of the earth, that the wind
should not blow on the earth, nor
on the sea, nor on any tree.
Then I saw another angel
ascending from the east, having
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the seal of the living God. And
he shouted with a loud voice to
the four angels to whom it was
granted to harm the earth and
the sea,
saying, “Do not harm the earth,
neither the sea, or the trees, until
we have sealed the servants of
our God in their foreheads.”
And I heard the number of them
who were sealed. And one hundred
and forty four thousand of
all the tribes of the children of
Israel were sealed:
of the tribe of Judah twelve
thousand were sealed; of the tribe
of Reuben twelve thousand were
sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve
thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Asher twelve
thousand were sealed; of the tribe
of Naphtali twelve thousand were
sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh
twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Simeon twelve
thousand were sealed; of the tribe
of Levi twelve thousand were
sealed; of the tribe of Issachar
twelve thousand were sealed.
of the tribe of Zebulun twelve
thousand were sealed; of the tribe
of Joseph twelve thousand were
sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin
twelve thousand were sealed.
After this I looked, and behold,
a large multitude which no one
could number, of all nations,
tribes, peoples, and languages,
standing before the throne, and
before the Lamb, clothed with
white robes, with palm branches
in their hands,
and shouting out with a loud
voice, saying, “Salvation belongs
to our God who sits upon the
throne, and to the Lamb!”
And all the angels stood surrounding
the throne and among
the elders and the four creatures,
and fell on their faces before the
throne and worshiped God,
saying: “Amen! Blessing and
glory and wisdom, thanksgiving
and honor and power and
might, be to our God forever and
ever. Amen.”
Then one of the elders responded,
saying to me, “Who are these that
are clothed in white robes? and
where did they come from?”
And I said to him, “Sir, you
know.” So he said to me, “These are
those who have come out of great
tribulation, and have washed
their robes, and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb.
Therefore are they before the
throne of God, and serve Him day
and night in His temple. And He
who sits on the throne will live
among them.
They will not hunger anymore
nor thirst anymore; neither will
the sun strike them, nor any heat;
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Because, the Lamb who is in the
midst of the throne will feed them
and will lead them to living fountains
of waters. And God will wipe
away every tear from their eyes.”
CHAPTER
Then when He had opened the
seventh seal, there was silence
in heaven for about the period of
half an hour.
And I saw the seven angels who
stand before God, and to them
were given seven trumpets.
Then another angel having a
golden censer came and stood at
the altar. And a large amount of
incense was given to him, that he
should off er it with the prayers of
all saints upon the golden altar
which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense,
which came up with the prayers
of the saints, ascended up before
God from the angel’s hand.
Then the angel took the censer,
fi lled it with fi re from the altar,
and threw it to the earth. Then
there were noises, thunderings,
lightnings, and an earthquake.
So the seven angels who had the
seven trumpets prepared themselves
to sound.
The fi rst angel sounded: And
hail and fi re mingled with blood
followed, and they were thrown
to the earth. Then a third of all
the trees were burnt up, and all
green grass was burnt up.
Then the second angel sounded:
And a thing like a huge mountain
burning with fi re was thrown
into the sea, then a third of all the
sea became blood.
And a third of all the creatures
in the sea that had life died,
and a third of all the ships were
destroyed.
Then the third angel sounded:
And a large star fell from heaven,
burning like a torch, and it fell on
a third of all the rivers and on the
springs of waters.
And the name of the star is
Wormwood. Then a third of all
the waters became wormwood,
and many people died from the
water, because it was made bitter.
Then the fourth angel sounded:
And a third of the sun was struck,
a third of the moon, and a third of
the stars, so that a third of them
were darkened. And a third of the
day did not shine, and likewise
the night.
And I looked, and heard an
angel fl ying through the midst of
heaven, saying with a loud voice,
“Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants
of the earth, because of the
remaining blasts of the trumpet
of the three angels who are about
to sound!”
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CHAPTER
Then the fi fth angel sounded:
And I saw a star fall from heaven
to the earth. And to him was given
the key to the bottomless pit.
And he opened the bottomless
pit, and smoke arose out of the
pit, like the smoke of a large furnace.
So the sun and the air were
darkened because of the smoke of
the pit.
Then out of the smoke came
locusts upon the earth. And to
them was given authority, as
the scorpions of the earth have
authority.
And they were commanded not
to harm the grass of the earth, or
any green thing, or any tree, but
only those men who do not have
the seal of God in their foreheads.
And they were not given permission
to kill them, but that
they should be tormented for fi ve
months. And their torment was
like the torment of a scorpion
when it strikes a man.
And in those days men will seek
death and will not fi nd it; and will
desire to die, and death will fl ee
from them.
And the shape of the locusts
were like horses prepared for battle.
And on their heads were like
crowns of gold, and their faces
were like the faces of men.
And they had hair like women’s
hair, and their teeth were like
lions’ teeth.
And they had breastplates like
breastplates of iron, and the
sound of their wings was like
the sound of chariots with many
horses running to battle.
And they had tails like scorpions,
and there were stings in
their tails. And their power was to
hurt men fi ve months.
And they had a king over them,
who is the angel of the bottomless
pit, whose name in the Hebrew
language is Abaddon, but in
the Greek language his name is
Apollyon.
One woe is past, and behold,
still two more woes are coming
after this.
Then the sixth angel sounded:
And I heard a voice from the four
horns of the golden altar which is
before God,
saying to the sixth angel who
had the trumpet, “Release the
four angels who are bound at the
great river Euphrates.”
So the four angels, who had
been prepared for the hour and
day and month and year, were
released to kill the third of
mankind.
Now the number of the army
of the horsemen was two hundred
million; and I heard the number
of them.
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And thus I saw the horses in the
vision: So those who sat on them
had breastplates of fi re, and sapphire,
and sulfur; and the heads
of the horses were like the heads
of lions; and out of their mouths
came fi re, smoke, and brimstone.
By these three a third part of
mankind was killed, by the fi re
and the smoke and the brimstone
which came out of their mouths.
Because, their power is in their
mouth and in their tails; because
their tails were like serpents, having
heads; and with them they do
harm.
But the rest of mankind who
were not killed by these plagues,
yet did not repent of the works
of their hands, that they should
not worship demons, and idols of
gold, and silver, brass, stone, and
wood, which can neither see nor
hear nor walk;
neither did they repent of their
murders or of their sorceries or
of their sexual immorality or of
their thefts.
CHAPTER
And I saw another mighty angel
come down from heaven, clothed
with a cloud. And a rainbow was
on his head, his face was like the
sun, and his feet like pillars of fi re.
And he had a little book open
in his hand. And he set his right
foot on the sea and his left foot on
the land,
and shouted with a loud voice,
like when a lion roars. And when
he had shouted, seven thunders
uttered their voices.
Now when the seven thunders
had spoken their voices, I was
about to write; but I heard a voice
from heaven saying to me, “Seal up
those things which the seven thunders
spoke, and do not write them.”
And the angel whom I saw
standing on the sea and on the
land lifted up his hand to heaven
and swore by Him who lives
forever and ever, who created
heaven and the things that are
in it, the earth, and the things
that are in it, and the sea, and the
things that are in it, that there
should no longer be a delay,
but in the days of the voice of
the seventh angel, when he will
begin to sound, the mystery of
God would be fi nished, as He
has declared to His servants the
prophets.
Then the voice which I heard
from heaven spoke to me again
and said, “Go and take the little
book which is open in the hand of
the angel who stands on the sea
and on the land.”
So I went to the angel and
said to him, “Give me the little
book.” And he said to me, “Take
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it and eat it; and it will make
your stomach bitter, but it will
be as sweet as honey in your
mouth.”
Then I took the little book out
of the angel’s hand and ate it up,
and it was sweet as honey in my
mouth. But as soon as I had eaten
it, my stomach became bitter.
And he said to me, “You must
prophesy again before many peoples,
and nations, and languages,
and kings.”
CHAPTER
Then I was given a reed like a
measuring rod. And the angel
stood, saying, “Rise and measure
the temple of God, the altar, and
those who worship in it.
But leave out the court which
is outside the temple, and do not
measure it, because it has been
given to the Gentiles. And they
will tread the holy city under foot
for forty two months.
And I will give power to my two
witnesses, and they will prophesy
one thousand two hundred and
sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
These are the two olive trees
and the two lampstands standing
before the God of the earth.
And if anyone wants to hurt
them, fi re proceeds from their
mouth and devours their enemies.
And if anyone wants to hurt them,
he must be killed in this manner.
These have power to shut
heaven, so that no rain falls in the
days of their prophecy; and have
power over waters to turn them to
blood, and to strike the earth with
all plagues, as often as they desire.
And when they will have fi nished
their testimony, the beast
that ascends out of the bottomless
pit will make war against
them, will overcome them, and
kill them.
And their dead bodies will lie in
the street of the great city which
spiritually is called Sodom and
Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucifi ed.
And those from the peoples,
tribes, languages, and nations
will see their dead bodies three
and a half days, and will not
allow their dead bodies to be put
in graves.
And those who dwell on the
earth will rejoice over them, and
will be glad, and will send gifts to
one another, because these two
prophets tormented those who
dwell on the earth.
Now after three and a half days
the Spirit of life from God entered
into them, and they stood on
their feet, and great fear fell on
those who saw them.
And they heard a loud voice
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from heaven saying to them,
“Come up here.” And they
ascended up to heaven in a cloud,
and their enemies saw them.
And in the same hour there
was a large earthquake, and a
tenth of the city fell. And in the
earthquake seven thousand people
were killed, and the rest were
afraid and gave glory to the God
of heaven.
The second woe is past. And
behold, the third woe is coming
suddenly.
Then the seventh angel
sounded: And there were loud
voices in heaven, saying, “The
kingdoms of this world have
become the kingdoms of our Lord
and of His Christ, and He will
reign forever and ever!”
And the twenty four elders who
sat before God on their thrones fell
on their faces and worshiped God,
saying: “We give You thanks,
O Lord God Almighty, who is and
was and is to come, because You
have taken to Yourself Your great
power and reigned.
And the nations were angry,
and Your wrath has come, and
the time of the dead, that they
should be judged, and that You
should give rewards to Your
servants the prophets and the
saints, and those who reverence
Your name, small and great, and
should destroy those who destroy
the earth.”
Then the temple of God was
opened in heaven, and the ark
of His testament was seen in His
temple. And there were lightnings,
voices, thunderings, an
earthquake, and large hail.
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Now there appeared a great sign
in heaven: a woman clothed with
the sun, with the moon under her
feet, and on her head a crown of
twelve stars.
And being with child cried out
in labor and in pain to give birth.
Then another sign appeared in
heaven: and behold a great red
dragon having seven heads and
ten horns, and seven crowns on
his heads.
And his tail drew a third of the
stars of heaven and threw them
to the earth. And the dragon
stood before the woman who was
ready to give birth, to devour her
Child as soon as it was born.
And she bore a male Child who
was to rule all nations with a rod
of iron. And her Child was caught
up to God and to His throne.
Then the woman fl ed into the
wilderness, where she has a place
prepared by God, that they should
feed her there one thousand two
hundred and sixty days.
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And there was war in heaven:
Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the
dragon and his angels fought,
but did not prevail; nor was a
place found for them in heaven
any longer.
So the great dragon was cast
out, that serpent of old, called the
Devil and Satan, who deceives the
entire world; he was cast out into
the earth, and his angels were
cast out with him.
Then I heard a loud voice saying
in heaven, “Now salvation,
and strength, and the kingdom
of our God, and the authority of
His Christ have come, because
the accuser of our brethren, who
accused them before our God day
and night, has been cast down.
And they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb and by the word
of their testimony, and they did
not love their lives to the death.
Therefore rejoice, you heavens,
and you who dwell in them! Woe
to the inhabitants of the earth
and of the sea! Because the devil
has come down to you, having
fi erce wrath, because he knows
that he only has a short time.”
Now when the dragon saw that
he had been cast to the earth, he
persecuted the woman who gave
birth to the male Child.
But the woman was given two
wings of a great eagle, that she
might fl y into the wilderness into
her place, where she is nourished
for a time and times and half a
time, from the face of the serpent.
So the serpent spewed out
water from his mouth like a fl ood
after the woman, that he might
cause her to be carried away by
the fl ood.
But the earth helped the
woman, and the earth opened
its mouth and swallowed up the
fl ood which the dragon spewed
out of his mouth.
And the dragon was enraged
with the woman, and went to
make war with the remainder
of her seed, who keep the commandments
of God and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ.
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Then I stood on the sand of the
sea. And saw a beast rise up out of
the sea, having seven heads and
ten horns, and on his horns ten
crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous
name.
Now the beast which I saw
was like a leopard, and his feet
were like the feet of a bear, and
his mouth like the mouth of a
lion, and the dragon gave him
his power, throne, and great
authority.
And I saw one of his heads as it
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had been mortally wounded, and
his deadly wound was healed, and
the entire world followed after
the beast.
And they worshiped the dragon
who gave authority to the beast;
and they worshiped the beast, saying,
“Who is like the beast? Who is
able to make war with him?”
And he was given a mouth
speaking grand things and
blasphemies, and he was given
authority to continue for forty
two months.
And he opened his mouth in blasphemy
against God, to blaspheme
His name, and His tabernacle, and
those who dwell in heaven.
And it was granted to him to
make war with the saints and to
overcome them. And authority
was given to him over every tribe,
and language, and nation.
And all who live on the earth
will worship him, whose names
are not written in the Book of Life
of the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world.
If anyone has an ear, let him hear.
He who leads into captivity
will go into captivity; he who
kills with the sword must be
killed with the sword. Here is
the perseverance and the faith
of the saints.
Then I saw another beast coming
up out of the earth, and he
had two horns like a lamb and he
spoke like a dragon.
And he exercises all the
authority of the fi rst beast in his
presence, and causes the earth
and those who dwell in it to worship
the fi rst beast, whose deadly
wound was healed.
And performs great wonders,
so that he makes fi re come down
from heaven on the earth in the
sight of men.
And deceives those who dwell
on the earth because of those miracles
which he had authority to
do in the sight of the beast, saying
to those who live on the earth,
that they should make an image
to the beast who had the wound
by a sword, and lived.
And he had authority to give
life to the image of the beast, that
the image of the beast should
both speak and cause as many as
would not worship the image of
the beast to be killed.
And he causes all, both small
and great, rich and poor, free
and slave, to receive a mark
in their right hand or in their
foreheads,
and that no one may buy or
sell except one who had the mark
or the name of the beast, or the
number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who
has understanding calculate the
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number of the beast, because it
is the number of a man: and his
number is six hundred and sixty
six.
CHAPTER
Then I looked, and saw a Lamb
standing on mount Zion, and with
Him one hundred and forty four
thousand, having His Father’s
name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven,
like the voice of many waters, and
like the voice of loud thunder.
And I heard the sound of harpists
playing with their harps.
And they sang as it were a new
song before the throne, before
the four creatures, and the elders;
and no one could learn that song
except the one hundred and
forty four thousand who were
redeemed from the earth.
These are those who were not
defi led with women, because they
are virgins. These are those who
follow the Lamb wherever He
goes. These were redeemed from
among men, being the fi rstfruits
to God and to the Lamb.
And no deception was found in
their mouths, because they are
without fault before the throne
of God.
Then I saw another angel fl ying
in the midst of heaven, having the
everlasting gospel to preach to
those who live on the earth, and
to every nation, tribe, language,
and people,
saying with a loud voice,
“Reverence God and give glory
to Him, because, the hour of His
judgment has come; and worship
Him who made heaven and earth,
the sea and springs of water.”
And another angel there followed,
saying, “Babylon is fallen,
is fallen, that great city, because
she made all nations drink of
the wine of the wrath of her
fornication.”
Then the third angel followed
them, saying with a loud voice,
“If anyone worships the beast and
his image, and receives his mark
in his forehead or in his hand,
they will drink of the wine of
the wrath of God, which is poured
out without mixture into the cup
of His indignation. Then he will be
tormented with fi re and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels
and in the presence of the Lamb.
And the smoke of their torment
ascends up forever and ever; and
they have no rest day or night,
who worship the beast and his
image, and whoever receives the
mark of his name.”
Here is the patience of the
saints; here are those who keep
the commandments of God and
the faith of Jesus.
Then I heard a voice from
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heaven saying to me, “Write:
‘Blessed are the dead who die in
the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,”
says the Spirit, “that they may
rest from their labors; and their
works follow them.”
Then I looked, and behold a
white cloud, and on the cloud sat
One like the Son of Man, having
on His head a golden crown, and
in His hand a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out of
the temple, shouting with a loud
voice to Him who sat on the cloud,
“Thrust in Your sickle and reap,
because, the time has come for
You to reap, because the harvest
of the earth is ripe.”
So He who sat on the cloud
thrust in His sickle on the earth,
and the earth was reaped.
Then another angel came out of
the temple which is in heaven, he
also having a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out
from the altar, who had authority
over fi re, and he shouted
with a loud shout to him who
had the sharp sickle, saying,
“Thrust in your sharp sickle and
gather the clusters of the vine
of the earth, because her grapes
are fully ripe.”
So the angel thrust in his sickle
into the earth and gathered the
vine of the earth, and threw it
into the large winepress of the
wrath of God.
And the winepress was trodden
outside the city, and blood came
out of the winepress, up to the
horse bridles, for the distance of
one thousand and six hundred
stadiums.
CHAPTER
Then I saw another sign in
heaven, great and marvelous:
seven angels having the seven
last plagues, because in them the
wrath of God is complete.
And I saw something like a sea of
glass mingled with fi re, and those
who have attained the victory
over the beast, over his image over
his mark and over the number of
his name, standing on the sea of
glass, having the harps of God.
And they sing the song of
Moses, the servant of God, and
the song of the Lamb, saying:
“Great and marvelous are Your
works, Lord God Almighty! Just
and true are Your ways, You King
of saints!
Who will not reverence You,
O Lord, and glorify Your name?
Because You alone are holy.
Because, all nations will come and
worship before You, because Your
judgments are being manifested.”
And after these things I looked,
and saw, the temple of the
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tabernacle of the testimony in
heaven was opened.
And the seven angels came out
of the temple having the seven
plagues, clothed in pure and
white linen, and having their
chests wrapped with golden belts
Then one of the four creatures
gave to the seven angels seven
golden bowls full of the wrath of
God who lives forever and ever.
And the temple was fi lled with
smoke from the glory of God and
from His power, and no one was
able to enter into the temple until
the seven plagues of the seven
angels were completed.
CHAPTER
Then I heard a loud voice from
the temple saying to the seven
angels, “Go your way and pour
out the bowls of the wrath of God
upon the earth.”
So the fi rst went and poured out
his bowl upon the earth, and a
dreadful and harmful sore came
upon the men who had the mark
of the beast and upon those who
worshiped his image.
Then the second angel poured
out his bowl upon the sea, and it
became like the blood of a dead
man; and every living creature in
the sea died.
Then the third angel poured
out his bowl upon the rivers
and springs of water, and they
became blood.
And I heard the angel of the
waters saying: “You are righteous,
O Lord, who is and who
was and who will be, because You
have judged these things.
Because, they have shed the
blood of saints and prophets, and
You have given them blood to
drink, because they deserve it.”
And I heard another from the
altar saying, “Even so, Lord God
Almighty, true and righteous are
Your judgments.”
Then the fourth angel poured
out his bowl upon the sun, and
authority was given to him to
scorch men with fi re.
And men were scorched with
intense heat, and blasphemed
the name of God who has
authority over these calamities;
and they did not repent to give
Him glory.
Then the fi fth angel poured out
his bowl upon the throne of the
beast, and his kingdom became
full of darkness; and they gnawed
their tongues because of the pain.
They blasphemed the God of
heaven because of their pains and
their sores, and yet did not repent
of their deeds.
Then the sixth angel poured
out his bowl upon the great river
Euphrates, and its water dried up,
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so that the way of the kings of the
east might be prepared.
And I saw three unclean spirits
like frogs come out of the mouth
of the dragon, and out of the
mouth of the beast, and out of the
mouth of the false prophet.
Because, they are the spirits
of demons, doing miracles, which
go out to the kings of the earth
and of the entire world, to gather
them to the battle of that great
day of God Almighty.
“Behold, I come as a thief.
Blessed is he who watches, and
keeps his garments, lest he walk
naked and they see his shame.”
And He gathered them together
into a place called in the Hebrew
language, Armageddon.
Then the seventh angel poured
out his bowl into the atmosphere,
and a loud voice came from
the temple of heaven, from the
throne, saying, “It is done!”
And there were noises and
thunders and lightnings; and
there was a large earthquake,
such a mighty and very large
earthquake as had not occurred
since men were on the earth.
Now the large city was divided
into three parts, and the cities
of the nations fell. And great
Babylon was remembered before
God, to give her the cup of the
wine of the ferocity of His wrath.
Then every island fl ed away, and
the mountains were not found.
And large hail fell from heaven
upon men, every hailstone about
the weight of a talent. And men
blasphemed God because of the
calamity of the hail, because its
calamity was exceptionally brutal.
CHAPTER
Then one of the seven angels
who had the seven bowls came
and talked with me, saying to me,
“Come here, I will show you the
judgment of the great harlot who
sits on many waters,
with whom the kings of the
earth have committed fornication,
and the inhabitants
of the earth have been made
drunk with the wine of her
fornication.”
So he carried me away in the
Spirit into the wilderness. And I
saw a woman sitting on a scarlet
colored beast, full of names of
blasphemy, having seven heads
and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed
in purple and scarlet colors,
and adorned with gold and precious
stones and pearls, having
a golden cup in her hand full of
abominations and the fi lthiness
of her fornication.
And on her forehead a name
was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
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HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.
And I saw the woman drunk
with the blood of the saints and
with the blood of the martyrs of
Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled
with great admiration.
But the angel said to me, “Why
did you marvel? I will tell you the
mystery of the woman and of the
beast that carries her, which has
the seven heads and ten horns.
The beast that you saw was, and
is not, and will ascend out of the
bottomless pit and go to perdition.
And those who dwell on the
earth will marvel, whose names
are not written in the Book of Life
from the foundation of the world,
when they see the beast that was,
and is not, and yet is.
“And here is the mind that has
wisdom: The seven heads are
seven mountains on which the
woman sits.
And there are seven kings.
Five have fallen, one is, and the
other has not yet come. And
when he comes, he must continue
a short time.
And the beast that was, and
is not, he is also the eighth,
and is of the seven, and goes to
perdition.
“And the ten horns which
you saw are ten kings who have
received no kingdom as yet, but
receive authority as kings for one
hour with the beast.
These are all of one mind, and
will give their power and authority
to the beast.
These will make war with the
Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome
them, because He is Lord of
lords and King of kings; and those
who are with Him are called, chosen,
and faithful.”
Then he said to me, “The waters
that you saw, where the harlot
sits, are peoples, multitudes,
nations, and languages.
And the ten horns which you
saw upon the beast, these will
hate the harlot, and will make
her desolate and naked, will eat
her fl esh and burn her with fi re.
Because, God has put into their
hearts to fulfi ll His will, to be in
agreement, and give their kingdom
to the beast, until the words
of God will be fulfi lled.
And the woman whom you saw
is that great city which reigns
over the kings of the earth. ”
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Now after these things I saw
another angel coming down from
heaven, having great authority,
and the earth was illuminated
with his glory.
And he shouted mightily with a
loud voice, saying, “Babylon the
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great is fallen, is fallen, and has
become the dwelling place for
demons, and the prison for every
foul spirit, and a cage for every
unclean and hateful bird!
Because all the nations have
drunk of the wine of the wrath
of her fornication, and the kings
of the earth have committed
fornication with her, and the merchants
of the earth have become
rich through the abundance of
her luxury.”
And I heard another voice from
heaven saying, “Come out of her,
my people, that you do not be
partakers of her sins, and that
you do not receive of her plagues.
Because her sins have reached
to heaven and God has remembered
her iniquities.
Repay her just as she paid you,
and pay back to her double according
to her works; in the cup which
she has mixed, mix to her double.
In the measure that she glorifi ed
herself and lived lavishly, in the
same measure give her torment
and sorrow; because she says in
her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am
no widow, and will see no sorrow.’
Therefore her plagues will come
in one day, death and mourning
and famine. And she will be
utterly burned with fi re, because
mighty is the Lord God who
judges her.
“And the kings of the earth
who have committed fornication
and lived lavishly with her will
weep for her, and lament for her,
when they see the smoke of her
burning,
standing at a distance for fear
of her torment, saying, ‘Alas,
alas, that great city Babylon, that
mighty city! Because in one hour
your judgment has come.’
And the merchants of the earth
will weep and mourn over her,
because no one buys their merchandise
anymore:
the merchandise of gold and
silver, precious stones and pearls,
fi ne linen and purple, silk and
scarlet, and every kind of citron
wood, and every kind of object of
ivory, and every kind of object of
most precious wood, bronze, iron,
and marble;
and cinnamon and incense, and
fragrant oil and frankincense,
grape juice and oil, fi ne fl our and
wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and
chariots, slaves and souls of men.
And the fruits that your soul
lusted after have departed
from you, and all things which
were dainty and splendid have
departed from you, and you will
not fi nd them anymore.
The merchants of these things
who became rich by her, will
stand at a distance because of the
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fear of her torment, weeping and
wailing,
and saying, ‘Alas, alas, that
great city that was clothed in fi ne
linen, purple, and scarlet, and
adorned with gold and precious
stones and pearls!
Because in one hour such great
riches came to nothing.’ And
every shipmaster, all who travel
by ship, sailors, and as many
as trade on the sea, stood at a
distance
and cried out when they saw
the smoke of her burning, saying,
‘What city is like this great city!’
And threw dust on their heads
and shouted out, weeping and
wailing, saying, ‘Alas, alas, that
great city, in which all who had
ships on the sea became rich by
her wealth! Because in one hour
she is made desolate.
Rejoice over her, you heaven,
and you holy apostles and prophets,
because God has avenged you
on her!”
Then a mighty angel took up
a stone like a large millstone
and threw it into the sea, saying,
“Thus with violence will that
great city Babylon be thrown
down, and will not be found
anymore.
And the sound of harpists,
musicians, fl utists, and trumpeters
will not be heard in you
anymore. And no craftsman of
any craft he is, will be found in
you anymore, and the sound of a
millstone will not be heard in you
anymore.
And the light of a lamp will not
shine in you anymore, and the
voice of the bridegroom and bride
will not be heard in you anymore.
Because, your merchants
were the great men of the earth,
because by your sorceries all the
nations were deceived.
And in her was found the blood
of prophets and of saints, and all
who were slain on the earth. ”
CHAPTER
And after these things I heard
a loud voice of many people
in heaven, saying, “Alleluia!
Salvation and glory and honor and
power belong to the Lord our God!
Because, His judgments are
true and righteous, because He
has judged the great harlot who
corrupted the earth with her
fornication; and has avenged the
blood of His servants by her hand.”
And again they said, “Alleluia!
And her smoke rose up forever
and ever!”
And the twenty four elders and
the four creatures fell down and
worshiped God who sat on the
throne, saying, “Amen! Alleluia!”
Then a voice came from the
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throne, saying, “Praise our God,
all you His servants, and those
who reverence Him, both small
and great!”
And I heard, as it were, the voice
of a large multitude, as the voice
of many waters and as the voice
of mighty thunderings, saying,
“Alleluia! Because the Lord God
Omnipotent reigns!
Let us be glad and rejoice and give
honor to Him, because the marriage
of the Lamb has come, and
His wife has made herself ready.”
And to her was granted that
she should be arrayed in fi ne
linen, clean and white, because
the fi ne linen is the righteousness
of the saints.
Then he said to me, “Write
‘Blessed are those who are called
to the marriage supper of the
Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These
are the true sayings of God.”
And I fell at his feet to worship
him. But he said to me, “See that
you do not do that! I am your fellow
servant, and of your brethren
who have the testimony of Jesus.
Worship God! Because the testimony
of Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy.”
Now I saw heaven opened, and
behold a white horse. And He who
sat on him was called Faithful and
True, and in righteousness He
judges and makes war.
His eyes were like a fl ame of
fi re, and on His head were many
crowns. And He had a name
written that no one knew except
Himself.
And He was clothed with a robe
dipped in blood, and His name is
called The Word of God.
And the armies which were in
heaven, clothed in fi ne linen,
white and clean, followed Him on
white horses.
Now out of His mouth goes
a sharp sword, that with it He
should smite the nations. And He
will rule them with a rod of iron.
And He treads the winepress
of the fi erceness and wrath of
Almighty God.
And He has on His robe and on
His thigh a name written, KING
OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
Then I saw an angel standing
in the sun; and he shouted with a
loud voice, saying to all the birds
that fl y in the midst of heaven,
“Come and gather yourselves
together to the supper of the
great God,
that you may eat the fl esh of
kings, the fl esh of captains, the
fl esh of mighty men, the fl esh of
horses, and of those who sit on
them, and the fl esh of all people,
both free and slave, both small
and great.”
And I saw the beast, and the
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kings of the earth, and their
armies, gathered together to
make war against Him who sat on
the horse and against His army.
Then the beast was captured,
and with him the false prophet
who worked miracles before him,
by which he deceived those who
had received the mark of the
beast and those who worshiped
his image. These two were cast
alive into the lake of fi re burning
with brimstone.
And the rest were killed with
the sword which proceeded from
the mouth of Him who sat on
the horse. And all the birds were
fi lled with their fl esh.
CHAPTER
Then I saw an angel coming
down from heaven, having the
key of the bottomless pit and a
large chain in his hand.
And he laid hold of the dragon,
that serpent of old, which is the
Devil and Satan, and bound him
for a thousand years;
and cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set
a seal on him, so that he should
deceive the nations no more, until
the thousand years were fi nished.
But after that he must be released
for a little season.
And I saw thrones, and they
sat upon them, and judgment
was committed to them. Then I
saw the souls of those who had
been beheaded for the witness
of Jesus and for the word of God,
those who had not worshiped the
beast, or his image, neither had
received his mark on their foreheads
or in their hands. And they
lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years.
But the rest of the dead did not
live again until the thousand
years were fi nished. This is the
fi rst resurrection.
Blessed and holy is he who has
part in the fi rst resurrection.
Upon such the second death has
no power, but they will be priests
of God and of Christ, and will
reign with Him a thousand years.
Now when the thousand years
have expired, Satan will be
released from his prison
and will go out to deceive the
nations which are in the four
quarters of the earth, Gog and
Magog, to gather them together
to battle, whose number is as the
sand of the sea.
And they went up on the breadth
of the earth and surrounded the
camp of the saints and the beloved
city. And fi re came down from God
out of heaven and devoured them.
And the devil who deceived
them was cast into the lake of fi re
and brimstone, where the beast
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and the false prophet are. And
they will be tormented day and
night forever and ever.
Then I saw a large white throne
and Him who sat on it, from
whose face the earth and the
heaven fl ed away. And there was
found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and
great, standing before God, and
the books were opened. And
another book was opened, which
is the Book of Life. And the dead
were judged according to their
works by those things that were
written in the books.
And the sea gave up the dead
who were in it, and death and hell
delivered up the dead who were in
them. And they were judged, every
one according to their works.
Then death and hell were cast
into the lake of fi re. This is the
second death.
And whoever was not found
written in the Book of Life was
thrown into the lake of fi re.
CHAPTER
Now I saw a new heaven and a new
earth, because the fi rst heaven and
the fi rst earth had passed away.
Also there was no more sea.
Then I, John, saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem, coming down out
of heaven from God, prepared as
a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from
heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle
of God is with men, and
He will dwell with them, and
they will be His people. God
Himself will be with them and be
their God.
And God will wipe away every
tear from their eyes; there will be
no more death, nor sorrow, nor
crying, neither will there be any
more pain, because the former
things have passed away.”
Then He who sat on the throne
said, “Behold, I make all things
new.” And He said to me, “Write,
because these words are true and
faithful.”
And He said to me, “It is done! I
am the Alpha and the Omega, the
Beginning and the End. I will give
of the fountain of the water of life
freely to him who thirsts.
He who overcomes will inherit
all things, and I will be his God
and he will be My son.
But the fearful, unbelieving,
abominable, murderers, sexually
immoral, sorcerers, idolaters,
and all liars will have their part
in the lake which burns with fi re
and brimstone, which is the second
death.”
Then one of the seven angels
who had the seven bowls fi lled
with the seven last plagues came
to me and talked with me, saying,
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“Come here, I will show you the
bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
And he carried me away in the
Spirit to a great and high mountain,
and showed me the great
city, the holy Jerusalem, descending
out of heaven from God,
having the glory of God. And her
light was like a most precious stone,
like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
And she had a large and high
wall with twelve gates, and twelve
angels at the gates, and names
written on them, which are the
names of the twelve tribes of the
children of Israel:
three gates on the east, three
gates on the north, three gates
on the south, and three gates on
the west.
Now the wall of the city had
twelve foundations, and on them
were the names of the twelve
apostles of the Lamb.
And he who talked with me had
a gold reed to measure the city, its
gates, and its wall.
And the city is laid out as a
square; and its length is as large
as its breadth. And he measured
the city with the reed: twelve
thousand stadiums. Its length,
breadth, and height are equal.
Then he measured its wall: one
hundred and forty four cubits,
according to the measure of a man,
that is, of the angel.
And the construction of its wall
was of jasper; and the city was
pure gold, like clear glass.
And the foundations of the
wall of the city were adorned with
every kind of precious stone. The
fi rst foundation was jasper, the
second sapphire, the third chalcedony,
the fourth emerald,
the fi fth sardonyx, the sixth sardius,
the seventh chrysolite, the
eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the
tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh
jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
And the twelve gates were
twelve pearls: each individual
gate was of one pearl. And the
street of the city was pure gold,
just like transparent glass.
But I saw no temple in it,
because the Lord God Almighty
and the Lamb are its temple.
The city had no need of the
sun or of the moon to shine in it,
because the glory of God illuminated
it. The Lamb is its light.
And the nations of those who
are saved will walk in its light,
and the kings of the earth bring
their glory and honor into it.
And its gates will not be shut
at all by day, because there will be
no night there.
And they will bring the glory and
the honor of the nations into it.
But there will by no means enter
into it anything that defi les, nor
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anything that causes an abomination
or makes a lie, but only those who
are written in the Lamb’s Book of
Life.
CHAPTER
And he showed me a pure river
of water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding from the throne of
God and of the Lamb.
In the middle of its street,
and on either side of the river,
was the tree of life, which bore
twelve types of fruit, and each tree
yielded her fruit every month.
And the leaves of the tree were for
the healing of the nations.
And there will be no more
curse, but the throne of God and
of the Lamb will be in it, and His
servants will serve Him.
And they will see His face, and
His name will be in their foreheads.
And there will be no night there:
And they need no lamp nor the
light of the sun, because the Lord
God gives them light. And they
will reign forever and ever.
Then he said to me, “These
words are faithful and true.” And
the Lord God of the holy prophets
sent His angel to show to His
servants the things which must
suddenly take place.
“Behold, I come suddenly!
Blessed is he who keeps the sayings
of the prophecy of this book.”
Now I, John saw these things
and heard them. And when I had
heard and saw, I fell down to worship
before the feet of the angel
who showed me these things.
Then he said to me, “See that you
do not do that, because, I am your
fellow servant, and of your brethren
the prophets, and of those
who keep the sayings of this book.
Worship God.”
And he said to me, “Do not seal
the words of the prophecy of this
book, because the time is at hand.
He who is unjust, let him be
unjust still; he who is fi lthy, let
him be fi lthy still; he who is righteous,
let him be righteous still;
and he who is holy, let him be
holy still.”
“And behold, I am coming suddenly;
and my reward is with Me,
to give to every one according as
his work shall be.
I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning and the end, the
fi rst and the last.”
Blessed are those who do His
commandments, that they may
have right to the tree of life, and
may enter in through the gates
into the city.
But outside are dogs and sorcerers
and sexually immoral and murderers
and idolaters, and everyone
who loves and practices a lie.
“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to
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testify to you these things in the
churches. I am the Root and the
Off spring of David, and the Bright
and Morning Star.”
And the Spirit and the bride
say, “Come!” And let him who
hears say, “Come!” And let him
who thirsts come. And whoever
desires, let him take the water of
life freely.
Because, I testify to everyone
who hears the words of the
prophecy of this book: If anyone
adds to these things, God will add
to him the plagues that are written
in this book;
and if anyone takes away from
the words of the book of this
prophecy, God will take away his
part from the Book of Life, from
the holy city, and from the things
which are written in this book.
He who testifi es these things
says, “Surely I am coming suddenly.”
Amen. Even so, come, Lord
Jesus!
The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you all. Amen.

Revision as of 00:29, 28 May 2022

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.

Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brethren.

And Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram.

And Ram begot Amminadab, and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon.

And Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, and Obed begot Jesse,

and Jesse begot David the king, and David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.

And Solomon begot Rehoboam, and Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa.

And Asa begot Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah,

And Uzziah begot Jotham, and Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah.

And Hezekiah begot Manasseh, and Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah.

And Josiah begot Jechoniah and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon.

And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechoniah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel.

And Zerubbabel begot Abiud, and Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor.

And Azor begot Zadoc, and Zadoc begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud.

And Eliud begot Eleazar, and Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob.

And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the carrying away into Babylon to Christ are fourteen generations.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together, she was found with child from the Holy Spirit.

Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privately.

But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to yourself Mary your wife, because that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

And she will bear a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, because He will save His people from their sins.”

So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying:

“Behold, a virgin will be with child, and will bear a Son, and they will call His name Immanuel,” which being translated is, “God with us.”

Then Joseph being raised from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took to him his wife,

and did not know her until she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he called His name JESUS.

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